[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

The micromanagement from the White House looks like Lyndon Johnson's failure in Vietnam.

This is looking like Vietnam more every day.

It's time to crush Fallujah!

Weakness will cause more trouble than strength.

Fallujah should have been dealt with fiercely and swiftly weeks ago!!

What the hell are we doing getting the troops killed by restraining them?!!!!

[r9etb]

Were you saying something? All I heard was a monotonous blah blah blah blah blah blah blah .....

[mystery-ak]

I hate to say this, but I agree with you.

[blam]

"The micromanagement from the White House looks like Lyndon Johnson's failure in Vietnam."

I worry. I hope this is not related to the election.

[expatpat]

Well, some of our posters here are thirsty for blood! I hope they're able to act tough, not just talk tough in a forum.

[Jeff Head]

It's [past] time to crush Fallujah!.

Amen.

[ApesForEvolution]

I agree. The PC calculations are killing us....

[oldtimer]

We have to be nice, and it is not micro-management.

The ACLU and NBC, ABC, PBS and CBS are looking over our shoulders, and they want Kerry to win.

We ought to give the bstrds 24 hours to come out with their hands up, or level the whole damn city.

One Marine/Soldier is not worth 1,000 ragheads.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

How do you know there is micromanagement? Maybe the whitehouse asked the men on the ground what they thought should be done and they said to hold off a couple more days...

[Joe Hadenuf]

The micromanagement from the White House looks like Lyndon Johnson's failure in Vietnam. This is looking like Vietnam more every day.

I find all this very disturbing.

[Blood of Tyrants]

"What are we waiting for?"

May 1. Why? Because no matter how careful and good our young men are, some will die. I hate to say this but Bush doesn't want the U.S. body count to go any higher in April. Yes, it is politics, but Bush is a politician and a darned good one at that.

The "cease fire" was a chance to let the Jihadis with second thoughts about dying run away and the hardcore Islamofascist to gather together. It also defused several other hot spots. When we take Najaf and Fallujah, there won't be any help for the cowards.

Several imans and clerics have condemned them for using mosques as hiding places and the people of Iraq understand that the US troops will do as much as possible to avoid damaging their holy places. They also know that our troops won't let them shoot from the mosques with impunity.

The people will blame the terrorists for any damage to the mosques and the U.S. will graciously offer to help rebuild the mosques.

Perhaps some moderate imans need to start teaching about how it is wrong to place too much value in an object (such as a mosque).

[supercat]

Fallujah should have been dealt with fiercely and swiftly weeks ago!!

If my memory serves, much of Iraq was similar to Fallujah while Saddam was in power. People may have secretly been glad the U.S. was coming to liberate them, but dared not let it be known, lest they end up dead.

Many of the people in Fallujah live their daily lives in fear that if their ruler decides they didn't seem loyal enough they and their families will be tortured or killed. Even if nearly everyone in the city were to know and believe that if the rebels didn't surrender the U.S. would simply level the city and kill everyone in it, they'd hardly fear such a thing. After all, it would hardly be any worse than the reality they face every day.

Fifty years ago, there wasn't any way to incapacitate dictatorial leaders without harming those who were under his thumb. Today, however, we can target attacks much more narrowly, thus taking out the dictators and their apparatus while mostly leaving civilians alone.

If we were to just slaughter everyone in the cities that oppose us, we would put the civilians in those cities between a rock and a hard place: if they support us, their leader has them killed, and if they don't, we do. While it's sometimes unavoidable that innocents will become victims of war, such an outcome should be considered unfortunate and to the extent possible we should work to prevent it. Doing so may cost money and take patience, but it's the only way to achieve a real victory.

[TheBattman]

The only thing that Islam understands is decisive strength. Our inaction (comparatively) in Fallujah is views as weakness by those thugs.

Unfortunately,as I and many other have said here on FR - not even GW has the guts to do what it REALLY will take to clean house in Iraq.

And yes, in a way the Iraq experience is starting to look like Vietnam, although I don't believe it's totally fair to compare the two. Any such comparison only reinforces the left's view and goals.

[ChinaThreat]

You are not alone. Read this excerpt from Lt. Col. Steve Russell with the 4th ID and his experience in Tikrit.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1125018/posts