TROOP FATALITIES....whose to blame?

[fsstnotch]

Originally Posted by Jamo

I think we need to dumb down our smart stuff in a controlled manner. A city block here and there will make it unacceptable to harbor the bad guys in the neighborhood. Note that some groups that don't even like us are fighting the really bad guys lately to get them out of their towns.

I must ask this... If we are at war with shiite, sunni, and al qaeda militants and the shiite and sunni's are in civil war.... Who is the benefactor of the sunni militants joining forces with the coalition?! Looks to me like the Sunni fighters have developed a genius plan to win a civil war!

And to piggy back what someone else said about the phsycological part, if there were not reporters on every corner waiting for the US to screw up or collect some collateral, it would be alot easier to do business over here! The militants are smart, and extreme cowards! They have no problem setting up traps for us in the form of IED's. If you've never been here, it's hard to grasp what these guys in convoys go through! The streets are littered with trash making it very easy to hide IED's, couple that with the fact that these people are TERRORISTS! They do not care if they kill innocent people!

I may be in Iraq, but I have the UTMOST respect for anyone in a convoy here! I met a guy the other day and somehow started talking about sunglasses. He had none. When I asked why, he said he lost them the first time he was "blown up!" He said he is the gunner in that lead humvee, he's been blown up 5 times in the past year! He was very excited to be leaving soon! I gave him my sunglasses and bought some new ones!

Josh