Fair enough that it could have been someone Else's firewood - and that the piece isn't designed to show the military in the best light. ...But it still seems that doing that sort of thing doesn't help endear the Iraqis to their "occupying army". I guess I have a different view on things as we Brits have a fair bit of experience of being an "invading army" - Northern Ireland is still fresh in some of our memories, and stuff like that won't help in pacifying the locals. Actually I heard that some of the American army bods are asking the ex-head of operations in Northern Ireland for plans on tactics/strategy for Iraq. (Which was the point of my post anyway...) *For the record - yes I was against the war, but I do think that Saddam Hussein was "evil" (although it seems, possibly a necessary evil), now I think we can't leave until the whole mess has been sorted out. And I'd like some British/American/A.N.Other politicians lose their jobs over the whole WMD/lying about a threat issue*