[deuteronlmy232]

What's "winning"? We already control the entire Iraqi countryside,

So, why am I paying 3.60 a gallon for heating oil? Your idea of winning and my idea of winning are a long way apart. When do they start reimbursing us for our cost and losses?

[JasonC]

Your idea of what military power can do, and reality, are what are a long way apart.

You can't sit on bayonets. They aren't going to pay you anything. Bluster all you like, they aren't.