re: "Safe Zones"
Lindy, you have no clue as to what's going on in most of Iraq. I posted Michael Yon's dispatches from Dohuk, and other references to the large areas of Iraq where life is pretty much going on normally. Made the same impression on you, I suppose, that everything else I post does.
This war is going to be won or lost in Washington, same as the Vietnam war. The Left knows this, and so does the insurgency. Both play people like you like a fine violin.