"The troops do not deserve a handful of stupid jerks to cause their lives to be more in danger,"
No, it's better that their lives are in more danger because we won't use our air power and Naval power to CRUSH the enemy, prefering instead to take prisoners and conduct urban warfare in Fallujah instead of erasing it from the map like we should have done 9 months ago.
Huh? It is better that our troops are more in danger?
I don't agree with your logic. I saw one of the Fox "generals" that just came back from Iraq the other day, say that Fallujah is now the most safe city in Iraq!!!
That wasn't a good accomplishment---the citizens of Fallujah are coming up to the marines and thanking them for cleaning up the town, and now rebuilding what was destroyed.
Maybe it wasn't flattened liked you want, but what if this was a better way to do it?
In comparing what you wanted to happen--the US going in and just flattening Fallujah, you would be condemning to death Iraqi men, women and children that had no other desire than to live peacefully after the war---
Now, if we don't prosecute the scum that caused the problems in the prison, we would be condemning the wrath of the Iraqis on ALL of the troops over there for something that they not only didn't do, but was just the opposite of what they want--to help.
Like I said earlier, although I hope that Iraq will become peaceful for the Iraqi people that want it and will die for it, it is our troops that are my concern, and they don't deserve to be destroyed by "one bomb" thrown by these idiots.