[WOSG]

I'd refer you to Abizaid's comments in his press conference this week. Exact question came up. Abizaid wanted the extra as a mobile reserve due to recent events. He says we DONT NEED MORE US troops.

Your questions are as (mis)leading as the usual press queries. We cant take any city we want to in Iraq. We choose not to, because our goal is for Iraqis to rule themselves, so we prefer Iraqi political solutions not imposed US military solutions to the various challenges.

So please, read the press conferences of the CENTCOM Generals. They are the true debunkers of much of this nonsense from civilian critics who arent there.

[WOSG]

I ruined the whole point of my post with a typo:

"We *can* take [militarily] any city we want to in Iraq."

[jpsb]

SoD Rumsfield purged the penegon of top commenders that disagreed with his troops require accessment, and as you have noted, recent events are proving the accessment incorrect. Should other Cities turn into Fallujah's as they very well could, we might be in serious trouble and suffer serious loses.

[iconoclast]

We cant take any city we want to in Iraq.

Freudian slip? ;o)