[The Great Satan]

What is happening now in Iraq is what happens when your troops and their leaders do everything possible to limit civilian casualties.

It has nothing to do with sparing civilian casualties. This is a complete myth. During World War II, neither Hitler or Churchill made any effort to spare enemy civilians, and the war still lasted in five years. What it has to do with is not escalating the war to WMD exchange -- the same motif which characterized all our proxy conflicts with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. When your enemy has the power to hurt you really really bad, you make sure you don't piss him off too much too fast. There's nothing very complicated about this concept.

[Interesting Times]

That's why there isn't any war, right?

[bybybill]

You might check but I believe GWB and the boys have done quite a good job "pissing off" Sadammnn.

[Mitchell]

It has nothing to do with sparing civilian casualties.

Don't underestimate the necessity of this in order to maintain domestic support for the war. Massive Iraqi civilian casualties would galvanize the antiwar left and would cause many marginal Bush supporters to turn against the war. (This will no longer be true, however, if there is a major terrorist attack against our civilian population.)

[JoeSixPack1]

When your enemy has the power to hurt you really really bad, you make sure you don't piss him off too much too fast.

You are so completely wrong you are not worth the rebuttle. Go hide under a rock.