Quote Originally Posted by AussieGiant View Post
drone

I'd appreciate it if you didn't misquote me so directly.
I didn't want to repeat 40 lines of text into the discussion, so I summed it up.
You are correct, if the US military removed the restrictions meant to prevent civilian casualties and used it's full force to suppress a rebellion, they could do it quite easily. And the US Treasury would never recover. A secondary goal in Iraq is to leave a functioning state behind, the methods you describe would make this goal impossible. Total war doesn't work when you are at war with yourself.