[TomasUSMC]

Add more foliage and you have Vietnam all over again. 8 Marine casualties, trucks burning, trying to supply Marines that are prevented from taking their objective by PC powers that be.

Will we ever learn?

[river rat]

Roger that!

I guess I'm too damned old to understand the "strategy"
I'm beginning to get more than a little puzzled..
I'm wondering what the reason could be, to justify the delay in launching the air and ground assault on Fallujah and destroying the bastards that resist...

The longer the enemy is unmolested, the more defenses and booby traps they put in place...

After all this time --- I pray there is a heavy air bombardment before the grunts are asked to move forward..

Semper Fi

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

I do believe that everywhere the Marines have engaged the enemy, they have won...and are advancing, not retreating, nor are they hiding in caves, spider holes, or tunnels while their hunters move freely about, with plenty of help - from the enemies' own neighbors who are tired of being held hostage by thugs.

The biggest similarity between Vietnam and today, imho, - the usual suspect leftist press-DNC-EU-UN accusers aiding the enemy, undermining morale and endangering our troops, by misreporting and misrepresenting our honorable military - the liberators of the oppressed and defenders of freedom* - as 'babykillers' or 'useful idiots' (labels which, ironically, DO fit the accusers) .

(* who are in the process of successfully accomplishing yet another mission, cleaning up Fallujah).

<*/rant*>

[ohioWfan]

I mean no disrespect, but you don't know what you're talking about.

There is almost NO similarity between Iraq and VietNam, other than the fact that brave American soldiers are fighting against a very bad enemy.

To continue to say that the two are the same is to say we are doomed to defeat, and our soldiers' sacrifices are for naught.

And I, as the mother of a brave young soldier who just returned from Iraq resent that.......a LOT.