Aw, shucks. If only they hadn't died by the thousands, they might've used those weapons to great advantage for the 'heroic' "insurgency".

Pussies. Die, all of them, just keep on dyin'.

Guess it's pretty clear - with all that firepower, they just can't muster the manpower to use it. Well, probably because they're mostly "underground" by now, if you know what I mean...

But liberal Democrats are convinced the more terrorists you kill, the more you capture, the more sanctuaries you destroy, the more IEDs and weapons you neutralize ----the stronger the enemy gets!!!

Fallujah was a Huge Mistake, don'tcha know???? Another Vietnam! A quagmire!!

It's a shame they weren't there to recount their theory to Hitler in the Last Days in the Bunker....because, evidently we didn't know it at the time, but years of heavy losses had in fact made Hitler invincible.

Hey, Ace -- on a related topic, something has been bugging me about your site's H.L. Mencken quote -- the terrorists are out there doing just what Mencken describes, hoisting black flags and slitting throats... but they aren't normal!!!... Maybe time to get a new quote?

In the long run, despite the terrible atrocities they were able to commit by having a safe area, setting up a stable base of operations was the terrorists' undoing in Fallujah.

Taking the pressure off them after the invasion and allowing the area to temporarily become a 'no go' zone probably helped that along. Once they became entrenched, with their own supply depots and 'establishment' such as it was, urban warfare became much more effective for our forces.

It would have been much harder for a conventional army to take out a scattered force of roving guerrillas (melting in and out of the civilian population) in as meaningful a way as what has occurred in Fallujah.

That said, I'm sure our men and the Iraqis still have difficulties ahead.

But hey! Lots of kills, and lots of munitions confiscated. Good hunting guys. We love you.

Damn, Cedarford. Sometimes you almost sound like a rational human being.

I saw Bill "Numbnuts" Maher on Larry King Live the other night, he was opining that you can't beat insurgents in an occupied country, completely ignoring all the times insurgents in occupied countries have been beaten. His example, (as if I had to say it) was Vietnam, as if the VC "insurgency" hadn't been beaten at Tet, only to reform after it became painfully obvious that the American news media was on their side.