[2penguins]

What I can't understand is why the media is suddenly telling us that the US has understated the difficuly they would have doing this....The only people I heard saying this was going to be easy was the damned media....

Taking ground with people shooting at you is never easy, but good troops make it look easy and you are looking at the best in the world.

[americafirst]

"What I can't understand is why the media is suddenly telling us that the US has understated the difficuly they would have doing this....The only people I heard saying this was going to be easy was the damned media...."

Exactlty!! And the commanders tell us we're on track - yet even this morning, WMAL tells us that we we are well behind schedule and should have been "in Bagdhad" this morning. Geez. Even FoxNews is guilty of way-excessive punditry - what I would give for a straight reporting of the facts: sans rumors, sans speculation, sans nifty little headlines taking up a third of the screen.