What makes me cringe is why our socalled leaders pretend there are any justifiable reasons for our continued military presense in Iraq. I fully support that US soldier. His anger is well justified, though perhaps misdirected. Let Iraqi's settle their own issues. The second US soldiers leave Iraq, the beheadings will resume in force. America's socalled leaders are bent on commandeering Iraq's oil resources. OIL is the ONLY reason for our leaders to waste oceans of blood and treasure in Iraq. America will have to make a deal with one or another devil anyway as long as we are dependent on oil. Quit the pathetic masquarade and pretense of democratizing the ME and the hilarious joke that our socalled leaders give a crap about any Iraqi or any muslim, or any American for that matter that isn't directly involved in access to or administration of oil. Be honest about our marauding intentions, get our soldiers out of Iraq, and let Iraqi's chop each other to pieces. We'll have to cut a deal with who ever triumphs in Iraq just as we formally did with Saddam, as we do with Chavez, and the duplicitous American hating wahabist in the House of Saud, and all the other devils all over this earth who our leaders side with, and cowtow to for access to oil.

Americans will never see any benefit, or gain from the crime scene in Iraq. GET OUT!

What would MJ say if he were that non-com? What would be a more appropriate way to motivate those guys to do their jobs?

That said, if the Iraqi police are going to take on the job of the U.S. Army, they ought to have similar equipment (helmets, flak jackets, night vision goggles, heavy weapons, the ability to call in airstrikes) before we start challenging their manhood. Those baseball caps really do make the police look like cub scouts, so it's no surprise that they don't want to engage the Mahdi Army.

I think I worked for this guy before he enlisted...