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This war cannot be waged with half-measures.

It can end only with the total annihilation of those who practice butchery and barbarism.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!! The Muslim terrorists have demonstrated that they can't be treated with civility or compassion. Their entire frame of reference is rooted in the barbarism of the 13th Century - so, let's give them a 13th Century response that they will understand . . . annililate Fallujah; convert it into the world's first and largest camel parking lot. Then, turn Mecca and Medina into glazed, glowing parking lots that will be uninhabitable by ANY living creature for the next several thousand years. If the Muslim vermin STILL want a piece of us after that, we'll be more than happy to deliver it - smoking ruin by smoking ruin.

Barbarians can't be negotiated with - they can only be defeated by annihilation. So, let's start the annihilation so that the remainder of civilized human beings on earth no longer have to fear these representatives of the "religion of peace". A "religion" that preaches barbarism, hate, murder, slavery and oppression. Kill it now, before it kills us.

Barney.

One question that bugs me though is we are all itching to do the terrorists in but how do you spot a terrorist? Do we just presume that everyone with olive skin who attends mosques in Iraq is 'with them' and fair game targets for our superb weaponary? Makes our taking retributions a hell of a lot easier if we do. Not sure it wins us the war though.

Conventional troops always face a nightmare in unconventional guerilla wars. The temptation when we were on patrol in Northern Ireland was simply to presume that everyone in a catholic area was 'one of them' and would kill you as soon as look at you. If we treated them as such, they obviously acted as 'one of them'. There was no political appetite to go and wipe 'them' out. So we got in a circle without end.

Intelligence is the key to all this. Its a tough job up front and will need cool heads. We need to find the ring leaders, the opinion formers, the paymasters and the weapon weilders. And we need to be very, very calculated in targeting just them. When we take them out - the mob will see reason. If we radomly hit the mob the mob will grow.