1) we are not losing, we are no where near losing.
2) While Iraq is not what we would call stable, it is more stable this year than this time last year, according to the latest intelligence and pentagon reports.
3) More ordinary Iraqi civilians are coming forward with local intelligence allowing us to build up a more accurate intelligence picture.
5)We are taking out more of the bad guys and discovering more of there logistics and ammo caches because of the local intelligence picture.
I see no reason to jeopardies this war and to end up losing it because of bad tactics because some people at home feel all scared over rubbish that is printed on the Internet.
Thankfully your military is made of sterner stuff
I want to win this war, and win this war we will.
And I will tell you why because those fighting this war have the same attitude and experience as me of fighting insurgencies and terrorism in a host of countries, in the European, African as well as Middle Eastern theater..
SauronOfMordor if you want to talk about the Second World War then you should comapre Phase 4 of Japan,Germany Iraq, not phase 2 of Germany Japan, and Phase 4 of Iraq.
And for those not in the know
Phase 1 Build Up
Phase 2 Air War (Softening up)
Phase 3 Invasion Ground phase.
Phase 4) Occupation.
Phase 2 in Japan was designed to allow us to go straight to phase 4 without the cost of Phase 3.
No more than we were in Vietnam. I've spoken to a fella who was a fairly senior Soviet commander at the time, and it was not at all our military prowess that impressed them. And rightly so; eventually it brought down the wall in Berlin and the Red Flag over the Kremlin.