[unionblue83]

ping.

[kms61]

The author contradicts himself in speaking of the insurgents "declining ability to produce and employ IED's" while at the same time noting a "considerable uptick" in IED attacks in 2006 compared to 2005. It seems to me that both things can't be true. Perhaps I'm missing something here.

[ModelBreaker]

This is a really sloppy article. The writer states that it takes 100 IED's to kill one american and then he "guesses" that we kill 25 terrorists in Iraq for every 100 IED's. That's it. If he has no more than "guessing", he should never have written the article.

I would certainly like his conclusions to be correct. But he gives me no reason to believe them.

[goldstategop]

Roadside Bombs have been lethal. But they're only effective up to a point. We're adapting and the terrorists have to up the power of the explosives to get more results. Eventually there comes a limit when TNT becomes so unstable you get blown up in a "work accident" instead of the enemy.

(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)

[BluH2o]

Whoa ... aren't we talking about Bush's disastrous war in Iraq? You know ... the unprovoked one the U.S. and our coalition partners have instigated ... the war that is inciting Muslim extremists, provoking more attacks on innocents around the world.