"Nice sentiment, but not very realistic."

Realistic is just what it is. I'm not suggesting that noncombatants aren't going to get killed, or that war can ever be clean. But minimising deaths in circumstances like that is absolutely central - not "just" for humanitarian reasons, but because of the knock-on effect.

Remember how things started in Fallujah? When there was an incident last year, where some American troops shot dead a bunch of demontstrators? In terms of purely military logic it may have been that what they did was an acceptable thing to do on the day, within "rules of engagement" - at least that was what was announced afterwards. (Though of course thta was what was said about Bloody Sunday too.) But a few months down the road and we see what that helped lead up to.

It isn't just a military battle out there, it never is.

(In that last paragraph you gett Fallujah and Najaf a bit mixed up, Strick - it's a complicated war out there. And "wanted for murdering" is jumping the gun "Accused of" or "suspected of" is a better way to talk about stuff like that.)