[BenR2]

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.

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I find your reply rather encouraging. I never realized that this kind of thing went on in Germany following Germany's surrender. How harsh were we in our responses to those decapitations?

Still, the level and nature of the resistance in Iraq seems to reach a much higher resistance: RPGs and mortars are LOT more military in nature than wires strung across roads.

[McGavin999]

The level of resistance isn't greater, the weapons are just better. But in a country where billions of dollars of weaponry were scattered from one end of the country to the other it's understandable. The number of people isn't greater, it's just the weapons they have access to are greater. We'll get it under control though it just takes time.