A military-minded friend sends this perspective observation:

Just finished watching “Battle of the Bulge” on the History Channel (for about the 50th time) and a couple of things struck me:
The scene where the Germans backed the trucks up to the corralled GI prisoners and killed them in cold blood. was very Sadaam-like it seemed.
The battle took 44 days!!! Could you imagine if Eisenhower was held to the same standard as Franks and the boys are today? Operation Iraqi Freedom has clearly, for anyone without an agenda, been a remarkable military success thus far.