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First, try and comprehend.

Will we go into the mosques, I never mentioned 30K feet.
I mean either Spectreing the mosques or sending in a hunterkiller force or blowing it apart with tanks.

How do we do a handover with the country in flames, granted 3 months from now, the revolt could be a memory.

If this revolt isn't quelled, how the heck will we hand over authority? wouldn't be any authority if Shia militias control a huge swath of Baghad and Badr City. Democracy is tough in these conditions.

And this thing is escalating fast, admin people fighting, waves of jihadis attacking all sorts of targets.

It's an issue of our resolve; we're talking arrest warrants and they're talking jihad.

I have no doubt the US will prevail.

But again, if Badr is holed up in a mosque, will we go in? Or will we allow him to enhance his stature by holding off the coalition troops.

That is the core issue. Every day that passes while he thumbs his nose at us emboldens the odious Nam comparisons and makes the US look ineffectual.

Perception is key; remember General Giap's words about how Vietnam was won not in the ricepaddies and jungles of Nam, but in the streets, kitchens and living rooms of America.

Tet was a US victory. How was it played on TV?

Granted, now there's the net and Fox. But can't you see the spin on CNNetal. Sadr has to be killed ASAP.

And this thing is escalating fast, admin people fighting, waves of jihadis attacking all sorts of targets.

I've been opposed to our guys being policemen and museum guards, but heck, lets not get carried away here. The highest report we have had is 100 enemy so far and we can't necessarily believe everything we hear. The sky isn't falling......yet.

We have gone into the Mosques before.

We have even more political cover to do so again, right now.

I do not think that it is a barrier right now. I understand the SOB moved out of the mosque this morning due to fears that we will come in and is hiding in some other religious shrine or something.

We are going to get him and we have adequate people and resources to do it.

It is, as I said, hand to hand combat that is going to be very costly.

I see the media is already hyperventilating!

They do not understand.

Yes, I agree, that with knowledge of the present, we can safely say that we should have gone after this guy regardless of his presence in a Mosque, but at the time it was thought that he would not be a major problem. His supporters are limited to the poor and ill educated rabble. he did not have any major political support and as I understand, he still does not.

These are the dead enders.