How about checking out what people serving over there are saying and doing, other than what the mainstream media is shooting into your veins? Check out the small town newspapers here, the military bloggers, the Iraqi bloggers, and some of the news out of CENTCOM. Do you know about what's going on in the outer villages? List all the trouble cities in Iraq. How many do you come up with? How many cities are there in Iraq? Fewer than six percent of Iraqis have ever actually had contact with the coalition.

If we were really as ruthless as you imagine, our death count would be a twentieth of what it is.

Don't believe your own propaganda.