[PISANO]

I admire the never say die, stick to it leadership of the POTUS concerning IRAQ. I have been on his side from the beginning. That being said there needs to be a CHANGE in tactics on the ground vis a vie Mookie and his boys and the foreign invaders.

We have to annihilate the militas on both sides and the terrorists irregardless of the collateral damage or tell Maliki he no longer has our confidence and unless he allows us to DO WHATEVER it takes to put down Mookie and the insurgency we will consider his refusal an invitation to DEPART IRAQ.

We won the war but the duly elected Iraq Government has lost the peace.

[GoLightly]

We have to annihilate the militas on both sides and the terrorists

Think about it, you recommend we do what they're already doing. That would make us "own" all of the deaths on all sides.

So long as Mookie isn't standing at the end of the day...

We won the war but the duly elected Iraq Government has lost the peace.

They're not tired of killing and dying *yet*. The US expelled, sometimes brutally, about one third of our population before we could form our government.

[BobS]

You know, We could use 140,000 guys and all that heavy equipment in CA for about a week. Start in L.A. and head south down the I-5 and the coastal roads toward Mexico. Women will be throwing flowers to the guys on the tanks the same way they tossed them to my dad in Sicily over 60 years ago.