[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

Is it too much to ask that our soldiers or Marines enter the mosques and seize the weapons stockpiled there? How stupid do we have to be?

The reason people bring up Viet Nam is the "stupid is as stupid does" factor seems to be rearing its ugly head. I remember the "we'll play by the rules and they kill us at their leisure" crap of Viet Nam. Somebody needs to be damn careful about this.

[Pukin Dog]

Please share how these 3-400 losers are going to come out and kill us? I'm dying to know.

[LS]

I don't see where we HAVE allowed them free access to mosques if there is clear evidence that the enemy is using it to attack us. As I recall, we already HAVE attacked a couple, and without any Iraqi public outcry, because they knew what the mosque was being used for.

And by the way, since people keep bringing up Vietnam, it's worth noting that by 1972, the Army of the Republic of South Vietnam was IN FACT capable of defeating the North if we continued to supply it and provide air support. The strategy of "winning the hearts and minds" did IN FACT work---until Congress withdrew all support for SVN in 1975.