[Marine_Uncle]

"And, if the president really wants to convince the US public he is serious about winning he will take out the damn terrorist training camps in Syria with a US and Iraqi offensive."
This may simply be the true state. Surely most Americans at this point understand the problems are not just going to go away by doing nothing. The POTUS must get on the pulpit and carefully re-iterate what must be done, in a way a majority can understand.
As for more troops. It would be indicative of our failure to properly train and equipe the new Iraqi army. And though some elements of the Iraqi society may actually at this point like us and want us to stay, as well as some of their leadership, we have to face the fact. They want to run their own affairs. A constantly sticky situation at best. Be damn if you do, be damn if you don't.

[jmc1969]

First video from the operation showing US soldiers charge the battlefield after a helicopter ride.

http://premium.cnn.com/pr/video/portable//video/world/2006/03/16/operation.swarmer.vo.affl/video.html

[immigration lady]

How right you are. I sent an e-mail to the white house today praising Bush on the assault but I also told him the American people will stand behind him if he is strong and defiant and he keeps on pushing forward. Let's see what he does from here.