the insurgents needs to start to store weaponery and bombs and recruite and wait 3 months and start a shock offensive --- ai, CIAs gonna be after me ( i dont mean it, im just suggesting)

Originally Posted by 2ndShockarmy

the insurgents needs to start to store weaponery and bombs and recruite and wait 3 months and start a shock offensive

Thats exactly what they did after Saddam fell.

They'll keep doing it, unless you kill the root of Al Qaida and Islamic fundamentalist education from countries like Algeria,Libya,Pakistan,Jordan,Syria,Saudi Arabia etc. etc.

Originally Posted by FlyingFrog

Militarily: quite decent work

Politically: a disaster (for USA)

Economically: a disaster (for Iraq)

Can they do better?
No, since the start of the war was already wrong.
Bush might have thought that now USSR is gone so he can do whatever a sole superpower likes to do, but he underestimated too many factors in this world. Playing world game you gotta to be a world master.

Agreed. It seems to me to be Vietnam II

I agree with its all a game, because think about when USA will install its government, they wont be able to leave the country. If they do, their government will be overthrown by terrorist groups, so you may never know how long USA will be there.

Originally Posted by Kirill K

I agree with its all a game, because think about when USA will install its government, they wont be able to leave the country. If they do, their government will be overthrown by terrorist groups, so you may never know how long USA will be there.

Well said.
when USA will install its government, they wont be able to leave the country. If they do, their government will be overthrown by terrorist groups

That is why the US military advisors are doing everything they can to fully prepare the Iraqi National Guard, but I don't believe that the Iraqi National Guard will be able to counter the unconfirmed numbers of terrorists and insurgents within the country.

Yes, anyway Iraqi National Guards are Iraqi's, and they would lovely to see Saddam or Saddam's men coming back to power again after USA left.

I don't think so. The terrorists and insurgents dislike the Iraqi National Guard as well, believing that the National Guard is assosiated with the Americans. Remember the attack on a bus filled with freshly recruited Iraqi National Guardsmen? All of them were brutaly massacred. There have incidents when Iraqi Citizens who are trying to enlist were killed or under fire. These terrorist groups are factions, which they believe that violence will persuade others and satisfy their demands. Remember, Iraqis are very divided now and are not that nationalistic as they used to be during the Saddam Era. Many of them are only concerned about their families, their homes, and their lives.

Originally Posted by It's all a game

Agreed. It seems to me to be Vietnam II

ahahahah!!! The enemy dreams of becoming what the VC was. The VC made these guys look like children.

Not to mention the NVA and a country haven. The situation is so different. Unless you're just predicting a failure.

Originally Posted by Chocobo_Blitzer

....The VC made these guys look like children.

Exactly my point! Even these "children" have already frustrated the "liberation" so much, just imagine what they can do when they grow up!