[Jim Noble]

Can't we catch a break

It is a major (domestic political) strategic error to fail to bring the hammer down in hopes of winning a few sucker moms.

If Fallujah was in ruins and bodies piled high in the streets of Baghdad, Bush would be up 15 points.

"People want to follow the strong horse"-a dead guy from Afghanistan.

[elfman2]

Perhaps, but Allawi would probably lose by as much to people who would surrender it to the radicals.

Defeating Fallujah should have been done in April (or May of 2003). Now we have to either minimize casualties or dump the government and re-fight the whole war like it should have been done a year and a half ago. I favor the latter, but there’s not a chance we’ll go there.

[FreeReign]

It is a major (domestic political) strategic error to fail to bring the hammer down in hopes of winning a few sucker moms.

It's a major error to think that the way the war is being fought is based on the hopes of winning a few "sucker moms".

[ASA Vet]

"People want to follow the strong horse"-a dead guy from Afghanistan.

The quoted rag was Saudi, not Afghani. But he did die in Afghanistan almost 3 years ago.