"and don't particularly care if they did. My point exactly, thanks for that it made me laugh!!!!"
If it made you laugh then I probably didn't communicate my point very well.
The other side doesn't care if they kill their women and children. In fact they use them as tools to better kill us. Our troops aren't cops and shouldn't be used as such. As someone here said their purpose is to kill people and break things. We expect too much if we think they can turn it on and off everytime and not make some mistakes IF this was a mistake. I don't think it was.
Saddam destroyed the Iraqi culture and replaced it with one based on fear and intimidation. That won't be fixed in a month especially when the people who used to be the powerful want their power back.