More stuff from our marines in Iraq:
"Morale among our guys is very high. They not only believe they are winning, but that they are winning decisively. They are stunned and dismayed by what they see in the American press, whom they almost universally view as against them. The embedded reporters are despised and distrusted. They are inflicting casualties at a rate of 20-1 and then see s**t like ?Are we losing in Iraq? on TV and the print media"
I share your sentiments about the media; however, a 20:1 kill ratio is not sustainable in the long run. There are a lot more of them than there are of us. We will either have to ramp up our lethality to a kill ratio of hundreds or thousands to one, which will mean a great deal more civilian casulties, or we will suffer the death of a thousand cuts as we did in Vietnam. Win convincingly, or get out.