PD, did I misunderstand your testosterone comment? I read this thread for the first time today… As far as the forums being quiet, that’s because frequent poster powayseller was asked to write less. According to some, it would make the forums a more diverse and interesting place. Now back to Iraq. The problem seems to be a lack of sufficient troops in the first place. We should not have gone in there, but since we did, we should have put in 5 – 10x the number of troops, so the job could be completed. With too few soldiers, the war was doomed from the start. I remember lots of debate early in the war about sufficient troops, and Rumsfeld was criticized for not bringing in more soldiers. Why hasn’t this been raised again as a problem?