[.cnI redruM]

No, those would be the ones hiding inside a mosque and carrying around women and children at gunpoint to serve as human shields. Besides, they are currently besieged. Those who are surrounded on all four sides, do not have real estate upon which they can flee.

The loss-exchange ratios since Al-Sadr called his jihad have been one-sided and in US forces' favor. Al-Sadr's will be ground down to nothing in under two months of bombing.

[Sam the Sham]

I do not expect the loss ratios to be anything but overwhelmingly in our favor.

The problem is this. Militant Islam has a recruiting base in the millions. It is their turf, their home court advantage. They can flow in like fish in the sea. From this perspective, one dead American soldier is a victory. They can keep this up forever.

And as for real estate on which to flee, they can melt back into the population whenever they like.

[iconoclast]

The loss-exchange ratios since Al-Sadr called his jihad have been one-sided and in US forces' favor.

Body counts?

Do you forget that not only these 6th century idiots relish their deaths, but their mother's do, too?