Hmmm, Westcoast - your talking !!!!!.
I just saw a news report on this. Their were no heavy weapons sniper rifles, large calibre weapons, sat gear, millions in dinars and foreign terrorists in attendance.
Their were:
- a few guns which every house in Iraq has.
- $1000. Hardly a huge amount.
- A large number of men who were of fighting age. Guess that makes them terrorists.
- Many women and children present. Many killed by the USA.
The US army is losing the argument on this one, as reported by the BBC. However nobody can be sure exactly what was going on. I too suspect it could have been dodgy, but it should have been dealt with better. All that has been achieved is more anger in the arab world. The Americans made a hash of it as usual.
Hours of bombing on a single f**king house. I think 40 bombs were dropped. One for each person in attendance. Have the Americans never heard of a term known as "collateral damage".
Surely a softer approach would have been appropriate, such as surrounding the building with a large force and laying seige to it. This would have been the better option. But of course the psycho Americans destroy it with spectre gunships and fighter jets and then follow up on the ground. A wounded animal is much more dangerous than an unwounded one.
Westcoast - your desperately trying to defend your countries tactics, that is perfectly understandable. However this is getting harder and harder for you to do because your military tacticians are too inexperienced in this type of situation (battle for hearts and minds).
The best option would be to give the British commanders control. They would be much more able to control the vast resources and technology which the Americans have. There would certainly be a lot less bloodshed.