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I would have thought our nation would have learned the lesson of politicians meddling in military operations from Vietnam. Bush, Sr. didn't meddle with Schwarzkopf, and he won quickly and decisively. Bush, Jr. wants to keep civilian casualties to a minimum, so he's not allowing the military to bomb and prep the battlefield as they should, and the result is what we have. Granted, our losses thus far have been light, but to the individual families of those lost, they're far from light.

Screw the civilian losses, our guys should have the leeway to respond with overwhelming violence to any attack they come under, regardless of where the enemy is hiding. The Geneva Convention permits this...if an enemy is using a church, for example, as sanctuary from which to snipe at us, we are perfectly within our rights to reduce that church to rubble. To let politics get in the way of military operations is to endanger the lives of our troops unnecessarily, and to invite disaster. Military force, if it must be used, should be delivered with max manpower and max violence, so as to completely defeat and demoralize the enemy, and any civilian support he may have. If innocents are harmed, well, that's just a sad reality of war.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

You forget, we are not occupying this country. Good will post-war is going to be necessary to establish a government that isn't going to require that we be back there again in a few years because some whack job is back in control making WMD. These people *will* remember the cautions taken and recognize it already! It is part of our legacy and one we can be proud of.

Oh, you mean like when Schwarzkopf wanted to wipe out the Republican guards and was told to back off. Not too much meddling.

The same BS was being thrown around in Afghanistan. More bombing, bigger bombs, more troops, we need to unleash the hounds.

Sure enough Afghanistan fell that same week.

If you think the White House is picking targets like some LBJ/Strangelove duo, you are sadly mistaken. It's the Donald/Tommy show.