[Jonah Johansen]

I hate to sound pessimistic but if you think there is any chance that these men will be released alive, then you are greatly under estimating the pure evil we are fighting.

The main stream media is salivating at the possibility of broadcasting videos of the soldiers being humiliated and killed, interviews with the grieving parents,the mandatory John Murtha rant and Keith O equating the brutality of our Marines in Hadith with the brutality of the insurgents.

[Steel Wolf]

I hate to sound pessimistic but if you think there is any chance that these men will be released alive, then you are greatly under estimating the pure evil we are fighting.

Well, there's released, and there's rescued. The terrorists may not let them go willingly, but they're dead men for even trying this. Now that Zarqawi is gone, and he has no clear successor, there will be no higher priority for the U.S. military then to recover these two soldiers.

[adgirl]

I hope you're wrong. Dennis Prager (sp/) had a an intelligence expert on last week who basically said that the death of Zarquawi meant the Sunnis are playing ball. Evidence of that is that after we got Zarq a Sunni was appointed to high level post (Defense Minister). That said, all the tribes who are supporting the insurgency will stop cooperating with these al queda types on the orders of their leaders. Right now it is not in the Sunni's best interest for us to cut and run as the Shi'as will stomp them, so if they start parading US soldiers in front of the cameras and freaking people out there will be more calls to get out. So in a nutshell if al queda types have US soldiers, politically, it would be in the best interest of Sunni population to give them up--and they have to be hiding in safe houses within that population.