To poster who signed his post as "Asshole": Hmmm, "100% bovine excrement" huh. What a witty, intelligent comeback. I feel totally humbled, now that I have witnessed true excellence in the art of debate. You have systematically disected every argument I presented with incisive, undeniable truth and unambiguous use of the English language.
FIrst, I'm not exactly sure what you mean with your statement "you don't examine roads with a machine gun". No, the machinegun is not used to examine anything. I thought that was obvious. It is the cameras that would do the examining. The machinegun would be used to disable or destroy the object of interest.
Second, I'll take your last two statements as actually having the same meaning. When you say "all I can have to defend myself...", I assume that you are implying that the average Iraqi is being attacked by US soldiers, and that those attacks are unjustified. However, those that are being attacked by the soldiers are basically criminals by every accepted definition of the word, not average Iraqis. They are a group that are indiscriminately killing hundreds of innocent Iraqis. They are a group that is trying to sieze power disproportionate to their public support by using terror and fear. Basically, exactly the same characteristics of the Baathist regime or an Islamic fundamentalist regime. They are sabatoging reconstruction projects in order to prevent any evidence that the US is actually helping the average Iraqi. I am sure that if the average Iraqi is in fact reasonable and has some foresight beyond that what is provided by religious fervor, they do not want this group to seize power. Therefore I do not accept the argument that the US is unjustifiably attacking anybody.
And no, this group is not the poorly equipped common people that you are trying to characterize them as. They are well financed terror group and they have more rocket propelled grenades and Kalshnikovs and explosives than they know what to do with.