Hi Resolution Pics Of Iraqi War

[Biggles]

I agree that the situation is far from ideal, but I think it will be a slow haul to improve the situation. It is now over a year since the war was all but over and yet last month was the second worse for attacks and coalition deaths. It was pretty grisly for the Iraqis too.

There might be a temptation to go in all guns blazing, but I suspect that might be counter-productive. A great many coalition soldiers have died over the last year, but a far larger number of Iraqis have died. To react heavily to coalition deaths whilst not even counting the number of Iraqi deaths (the nightly murder toll in Baghdad is scary to say the least) would send out messages to Iraqis that will do little to convince them that we are there for their benefit - playing into the hands of the poltical and religious leaders who oppose the coalition forces remaining in Iraq.

We are only going to secure the situation in Iraq with a long term mixture of assistance coupled with unstinting fairness and a lot of our blood and money.

These attacks are designed to make us respond with brute force - so that those who see Saddams removal as an opportunity to move Iraq in a different direction can say "look they are no different from Saddam, they merely seek to oppress you".

[Pitbul]

the war has already started, now it can't be stopped like we did back in Desert storm. that time we pulled out and Saddam only got more pissed and treated his people even worst. now we have no chioce but to finish what bush has started. even tho i dont agree with the war, its happened and you can't go back in time and change that.