you have a point yakreturns - let the suicide bombers go after military targets instead of cilivians that said as long as they kill as many as possible then they dont care.
Still if the US is silly enough to go into bahgdad with not enough troops or not seeking out teh UNs help then let them lose a few soilders - it becomes a testing ground for new US military technology, intelligence, information systems, tactics and many other things that the US military establishment will use in years to come.
One benefit has been a increase in spending on amputee treatments to treat US soilders with missing limbs - stem cell research and prothestis technolgoy will benefit
Armour research will benefit
New weapons technology will also be used and improved by US engineers.
