[gondramB]

"The United States is pouring billions more dollars and fresh platoons of experts into its campaign to "defeat IEDs," the roadside bombs President Bush describes as threat No. 1 to Iraq's future."

Arent IEDs causing more than half of U.S. casualties? Why wouldn't be concentrating on fighting them?

This same reporter would be likely be writing about the Pentagon is ignoring the IED problem is we were not spending on it.

[2banana]

We should be also concentrating on killing the bomb makers, suppliers and the persons who set the IEDs...

[Onelifetogive]

Even if we were to leave Iraq today, we would still need to learn how to defeat Roadside IEDs. There will always be more deployments of our troops and we need an effective defense against IEDs.

Just wait until Terror cells are placing IEDs in and around Washington, DC or New York City. People will be screaming for solutions.....

[pabianice]

The problem is simple and terribly difficult to overcome. IEDs are set-off my EM, usually cell phone transmissions. It's easy to block cell phone and other radio transmissions but how, then, can the good guys use radios? Laser can be used to communicate over line-of-sight, but that's clumsy and limited. The problem is in blocking enemy transmissions without blocking your own.

[NormB]

Start war -> Kill enemy -> go home

I don't see the point of hanging around getting blown up all the time.

Sounds like we didn't kill all the bad guys.

[TexasCajun]

This works around my parts...

[R.W.Ratikal]

The U.S. should seriously consider dropping a nuclear bomb on each strategic point in Iraq. Next, on nuclear sites and population centers in Iran.

We would take much flak from the wimp's of the world but we would settle the thing now and save millions of American lives.

It's not an easy suggestion to make. But we face the same situation President Truman faced when he made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japanese cities.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I can hardly believe that someone hasn't come up with some "fairly simple" mobile platform containing a surplus highly directional aircraft radar system that will wash an area suspected of having IEDs with intense microwave energy. (I can also imagine other uses for such a system, but I digress) There are military radars that will literally fry anything organic in front of them. Think "Amana", LOL. Might take a small jet engine to generate the power necessary to drive such a system but that's doable. Almost seems like a "Jesse James Monster Garage" project, although the HUGH disadvantage would be that billions wouldn't have to be spent to develop the thing. = BIG problem.

[MikefromOhio]

I seriously doubt we are spending BILLIONS on IEDs alone.....