It's going to take awhile, but here is how we stop the guerilla tactics, one raid at a time:

U.S. soldiers discovered a huge cache of weapons in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit (search) on Monday -- enough weapons for a month of attacks on U.S. troops, the military said.

The soldiers uncovered 40 anti-tank mines, dozens of mortar rounds and hundreds of pounds of gunpowder buried in the city.

Elsewhere in Iraq, a U.S. soldier was killed in an attack in Baghdad (search), another soldier was killed in a vehicular crash and guerrillas blew up a major civilian bridge in the capital in an attempt to disrupt the U.S. occupation.

I feel for the families of every soldier who is wounded or dies, my prayers are with them. However, we can't back down, as we did in Beirut and Somalia. The fact is that, unlike Vietnam, these soldiers are volunteers. Every person who joins the military knows that for a pittance they may have to give all. It is excepted in the services.