Unfortuantely war is the only thing Saddam understands. He is a "man" (and I use that term loosely) of violence who gets off on torture. UN sactions and diplomacy would never work on him, we tried for over twelve years and what did it get? Him continously stalling so he could continue to rebuild his army and weapons. He say one thing and be doing the opposite with the other hand. The Iraqi people had no chance to overthrow him on their own. They tried back on 91' when they thought that they would get help from the USA but because of political manuevering by the UN and the rest of the world we backed down and Saddam slaughtered all disidents. So now we are there to stay until the job is done right this time. It's not like we are laying waste to the whole city/country, we are doing our damndest to prevent that and just hit military targets. This is why this war will cost a lot because of all the precision weapons we are using which are very expensive. The cilvilian casualties that have occured are mostly due to Saddam purposedly putting them in harms way and having his fanatics hold families hostage and sending the others on suicide runs to kill a few soldiers. The ones injured within the city itself are mostly due to Iraq's own AA weapons that missed our aircraft falling back into the city. War is hell and never anything to look forward too, unfortunately sometimes it's a neccessary evil to get rid and a bigger evil. IOW it's the lesser of two evils. May our troops come home safely and the people of Iraq enjoy a new life of freedom free from the terror of a tyrant and murderer. Great render, just one minor detail. Based on the flag and the smoke in the far background you have suggested a fairly strong wind. The smoke from the near building should be stung out in the direction of the wind as well. :)