Obviously you must since both countries looked far worse at this stage then Iraq and at that time the troops weren't constrained by the PC crap they have to put up with today.
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Your post begs the question: Just how much organized guerilla hostile fire did our troops encounter in France and Germany after Germany surrendered?
None to very little. Therefore, you miss Archangelsk's concerns completely.
Ah, but you're wrong, there was quite a bit. The Germans were stringing wires across the roads and decapitating our soldiers, that went on for months and once it was stopped it started up again the following year. We just didn't advertise every death the way we do now. We were also able to be a lot harsher in our response than we are now.
Although each death is a national tragedy, the cause is noble. Out of the 135,000 soldiers in country there really have been relatively few attacks. NOBODY in their right mind thought this would be a sanitary operation. What we are doing now is harder than the war itself, but it has to be done or the country will be lost, the war will have been for nothing, all those lives lost will have been wasted. If that country falls, THIS country is in serious trouble.