[vanmorrison]

I want to see our "good buddies", the Iraqis, finally do something about Hussein's murderous henchmen in the town of Fallujah. We've already seen hundreds of Iraqis blown up in Baghdad by these bastards, and have been told repeatedly that the majority of Iraqis are with the US. Fine! Then let the Iraqis we've trained and armed go after the remnants of Hussein's killers with everything they've got. If they truly are with the US, and they truly want a free Iraq, then there should be no problem in fielding an Iraqi army capable of defeating these murderous Hussein holdovers.

If this can't be done, then we've already lost the war!

[TomGuy]

Hussein's murderous henchmen in the town of Fallujah

I read some article late last week that said even Saddam feared going into Fallujah because of the thugs. The impression I got was that the city is controlled, similar to Somalia, by fierce warlord types and bands of thugs.

[Steve_Seattle]

I'm less worried about the Saddam holdovers and al-Queda than I am about the Shi'ite militants. The Shi'ites are Looney Tunes; imagine if 1000 years from now there were still millions of Democrats willing to march in the streets and commit acts of violence to avenge the 2000 election; that is an approximation of the irrational mentality of the Shi'ites.