1 Attacks are down? there's 8 dead in the last 2 days. With victories like these, I hope we don't ever see defeat.

2 Where did you see this, Rusty? I read in today's paper that it's just reached a record! We lost 7 guys that were stationed out of Ft. Hood in a helicopter crash due to really bad fog. Of course, they weren't killed in "action", yet they probably wouldn't have been in the crash had they not signed up to fight. Sad either way.

3 That report you posted is not true. we have had the most death this month since two months ago.

4 Attacks on US troops are down. Unfortunately, the terrorists have begun to focus on Iraqi police again.

5 Rusty, that's because we killed them all. But it just go's to show that while I believe the Brits are the best at winning hearts and minds etc, you do need overwhelming force to subdue the insurgent fuckers. It has sent a message to any other town or city in that country, that if you harbour these people, that this is what will happen. I am a Brit, but God bless America.

6 War is hell. Fewer attacks does not mean fewer deaths. Shows some promise. We lost 75,000 men in the battle of the bulge in one day. Why are we whining about 7 or 8. Not to belittle thier sacrafice but we are far from being beaten here.

7 The Battle of the Bulge which lasted from December 16, 1944 to January 28, 1945 was the largest land battle of World War II in which the United States participated. More than a million men fought in this battle including some 600,000 Germans, 500,000 Americans, and 55,000 British. The German military force consisted of two Armies with ten corps(equal to 29 divisions). While the American military force consisted of a total of three armies with six corps(equal to 31 divisions). At the conclusion of the battle the casualties were as follows: 81,000 U.S. with 19,000 killed, 1400 British with 200 killed, and 100,000 Germans killed, wounded or captured

8 Hard to say if the Fallujah operation will have any lasting impact regarding overall insurgent activity. People seem to recall that Najaf was the scene of intensive fighting this past summer. Quelling that city didn't prevent Fallujah, nor should it be expected that Fallujah signals any significant crippling of the insurgency. Of course, fighting didn't resume in Najaf afterwards, so it's possible some of this peace will last.

9 OK Maybe I exaggerated a little.

10 Oops, that should have read "People seem to FORGET..."

11 I take your point venom. that's why I hope that the more these battles takes place, the pissed off the ordinary Iraqi's will get, resulting in the Iraqi's themselves eating into the insurgency from within. These insurgents/foreigners are holding all Iraq to ransom, its about time the Iraqi's themselves stood up to be counted and take steps to heel their own country.

12 Near the end and after WW II there was attacks on allied personel by neonazis called WEREWOLVES but they usialy ended up facing a firing squad when you face terrorists you dont fool around

13 We complicate the matter to much. My rule of keep it simple stupid rings that David is correct. Sometimes talking doesn't work. In that case a good ass whipping does. Particularly when dealing with idiots that only understand force.

14 It may be of use to keep in mind that Fallujah was the major base. It contained massive amounts of materiel, the stuff needed for battle. A large number of the dedicated muj were there, and even though a number left early or escaped, the losses are not as easy to retrieve as some may think. The muj are not magic. They are using terrorism on the Iraqi population because more and more the ING and especially the Americans are too dangerous to engage in any but the most hit and run fashion. The insurgency is essentially a Sunni phenomenon. If parts of the Sunni triangle are sliced off from the bulk of it, which remember consists of only 20% of the population,the elections will create a free Iraq with a sore spot needing suppression. Do not doubt the desire of either the Shia or the Kurds to undertake something like this. And remember as well the majority of the civilian deaths being created by the muj are Sunni. This is not the best way for them to solidify their hold on the people when the people have hope of freedom from these gangsters. Would anyone,did anyone, of the talking heads and the University pukes even begin to predict the successes that have attended our actions in Afghanistan? To ask the question is to answer it. This President is being guided in part by the support he receivesd for his own instinctive understanding of the power of freedom by the work of Nathan Sharansky. Freedom and the hope for freedom are more powerful than most realize. I think that many who worry about the cost in blood of this operation simply don't understand how incredibly inexpensive in lives these two battles (Afghanistan and Iraq) have been. If we had been able to end World War II, the Cold war including Vietnam, Korea and other minor clashes at the same proportionate cost millions, even tens of millions of people would not have died. We need more faith in freedom and less concern about the wimps of Europe whose suicidal urges are defined by their lack of replacement of their own numbers.