[TomasUSMC]

Every day we wait makes the enemy stronger. Every day the enemy is obtaining better armament. Soon they will have anti-tank weapons that CAN destroy a tank with one shot. They then won't be bouncing RPGs off our tanks. THEN, we won't be able to send tanks to rescue our men.

We need to throw this Vietnam Rules of engagement crap out the window.

When you have the edge in war, you use it or you are giving time for the enemy to take the technological lead and use it.

What will we do when a WMD causes 5000 kia in Iraq?

The administration thinks that there are only two possible outcomes - stay and win or leave and lose. Nope, the third is stay and lose. We are giving the enemy time - and this enemy has NO RULES OF ENGAGEMENT.

When the enemy starts dressing in our uniforms and driving our stolen hummers and buying and using real AT weaponry, we will see Vietnam on our TV again.

Use maximum force before the enemy starts too. If you want to save civilians, better that we kill a few thousand of them now than a few million are killed later.

Do not be afraid of emboldening the enemy, make the enemy fear emboldening US.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

I hear the Marines are not waiting, but are fighting back, and running out of room to put the enemy corpses...."quietly" so Al Jazeera, BBC and AP aren't as involved.

Today:

8 Military Force May Be Next Option In Fallujah, Myers Says ~ + "Fallujah Standoff Can't Continue, CPA Official Says" ~ Dan Senor, Gen. Kimmitt ~ Godspeed, troops! ~ DoD-AFPS | 4/16/04 | Sgt. Doug Sample, Gerry J. Gilmore

8 General: Marines Not Hampered by Rules of Engagement ~ DoD-AFPS | 4/16/04 | Kathleen T. Rhem