[ZOTnot]

Our poor soldiers are getting knocked off one and two per day, mostly by roadside blasts. It seems this device will allow us to remove that last obstacle to achieving peace in Iraq once they cannot continue to terrorize us. No harm meant; I should have been more clear in my response.

[VOA]

It seems this device will allow us to remove that last obstacle to achieving peace
in Iraq once they cannot continue to terrorize us.

Maybe I'm missing something, but after the first couple of deaths by IEDs, I thought
our military would tell the Iraqi civilians what we see at certain patches of roads here
in the USA: NO STOPPING

And send our fleet of Hellfire-equipped Predators on patrol to simply "neutralize"
anybody stopping on roadways and obviously trying to set up an IED.

Sure, this wouldn't work for roads in suburban areas...but as the photo shows above...
a lot of the threat seems