You have brought up a good point Publius. There are times I think this COULD escalate into an all-out assault just to "show 'em", make them back off. What they don't realize is that these desert savages ARE savage, they have NOTHING to lose. They have lost it all anyway. Their oil, their banks, their hospitals, their schools, their ancient relics, their market place, their leader etc. who at LEAST kept the country running. And they'll just keep coming until the last one drops.
If we stay there, our soldiers and anyone offering to rebuild The Great Democracy of Iraq" will also be killed.

I think we need to make a call for all the God-fearing right to take up arms and VOLUNTEER to go to fight those ingrates in the Holy War that George W Bush inadvertently started (but as a Born-Again Christian knows full well this will lead to Armaggeddon). Secondly, his CONSCIOUS motives were their oil fields and their banks (not democracy, not WMD.....will you all PLEASE just get over that??)

Yup, gotta love it (as Bowser would say). This is one place we just SHOULDN"T BE.

We now have THOUSANDS, if not hundreds of thousands of Muslims with venomous anti-American hatred over there, which soon stands to boil over into other countries, if we don't pull out.

And apologize.

Fat chance of that.

Arf.