[Ramius]

Where'd you get this idea that we can conduct warfare without casualties?

Wars are won by breaking the spine of the enemy before they break yours. That's when the pain of fighting will stop, and not before. Fighting wars hurts on many levels. It is an ugly business, and many many very good men will die before we are done.

We don't have to like it. But we do have to finish it.

I think it is quite possible that today is the beginning of the end for the resistance in Iraq. In a way it is the last fight in the fish when it sees the net. It's over for them, and now we're proving it to the last holdouts. At least I hope so.

[oceanview]

supposedly the Sadr militia is 10,000 strong (??). add the Sunni's to that, we've got to pick up the rate at which we are taking these guys out.

[TexasCowboy]

"Where'd you get this idea that we can conduct warfare without casualties?"

I never said that, and you know it.

I really hope you're right about the beginning of the end of the Iraqi resistance, but I have grave doubts.
We have not inflicted enough pain to make the resistance give in.