HOUSE TO HOUSE COMBAT AIN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE
First the Brits and now the Americans show how it's done these days

Liberals, finally tiring of comparisons to Viet Nam, quagmire, and Mogadishu brought up (horrified tone) the ancient battle of Stalingrad as a reason we would fail in Iraq; as if anybody still alive knows what they are talking about. Liberals always have reasons why things can't be done and ancient historical examples to "prove" their points. What those "anal ists" fail to note is that overwhelming force and weaponry always win. Especially when used with vastly superior tactics.

You can't escape the fact that the Brits lost five soldiers and the Iraqis lost several thousand, and by the way the city of Basra as well. Same with the Americans in Baghdad. You can win it with overwhelming force applied with patience, as is the case with the Brits, or with audacity and repeated jabs with superior forces as has been the case with the Americans.

The Brits and U.S. used "Special Forces" (a story waiting to be told) to infiltrate and then allowed them to pin point targets. Long range missiles then hit specific targets. The purpose with the Brits was always to lure the defenders out into the open. WWII was 70 years ago. Stalingrad has nothing to do with war today. Had Hitler had the weapons we have the Germans would not have bothered going into Stalingrad back in the 40's either.

Bottom line: He who has the most guns wins. Always. What counted too in this particular war was the manner in which we won.

The real lesson here is that once again the Left was wrong. Once again they reveal themselves lacking in the courage to take any initiative on any level to accomplish anything, and always because "it's too risky". They don't deserve our votes or our attention any more. Everything they said would happen didn't happen starting with the humanitarian crises in the countryside where "millions" would need aid, the starving people of Basra (another ruse to get the UN thugs into the mix), the impossibility of getting Saddam, and always the stupidity of our generals and president.

Thank God they are on the sidelines for this chapter in history.