We should use our military might or get out

In Dresden, Germany, during WWII, in a single night, 1,100 allied bombers dropped 6,600 tons of explosives. In the Battle of Fallujah, Iraq, in one month, American bombers had 150 air strikes.

In Dresden, in a single night, tens of thousands of buildings were destroyed. In Fallujah, in one month, 75 buildings were destroyed and two mosques.

In Dresden, in a single night, between 35,000 and 45,000 civilians were killed. In Fallujah, in one month, between 270 and 600 civilians were killed.

We won WWII and we are losing the war in Iraq to a bunch of ragtag nobodies with no real weapons of war. Iraq is about the size of California. If avoiding Iraqi casualties is our wartime strategy, we should have never gone to war. I am not opposed to the Iraqi war; I am opposed to the suicidal rules our troops are required to fight it.

The Pentagon Generals and General Mattis are using our troops as road kill, charging them with murder and using them as minesweepers to explode road bombs to, thereby, lower Iraqi casualties. This, in my opinion, is a deliberate plan to lose the Iraqi war. Americans always want winners, not losers, and if we refuse to use our military might to win then get out of Iraq.

The book “No True Glory” by Bing West relates actual Marine battlefield stories while fighting from house and house and identifies lies being told by the Associated Press. There are stories about heroic Marines refusing to leave their dead and wounded on the battlefield while some die doing so, and methods used to prevent Marine severe dehydration.

Archie McPhee