'House Bombs' a Growing Risk for U.S. Troops

This is why we can never win in Iraq. The enemy is too devious and elusive. The Iraq War is nothing but a training ground for the Jihadists, at the expense of our troops:

Inside the house, one soldier stepped on a pressure plate, detonating an estimated 30 pounds of explosives hidden under a stairwell. In an instant, four troops were killed; four others were injured. Edwards died later in the hospital. The sniper escaped.

The attack in Arab Jabour, southeast of Baghdad, was particularly savage, predicated on knowledge of the soldiers' sense of duty to a fallen comrade. Military commanders say the number of similar incidents -- those in which soldiers are lured into a house rigged to explode -- has risen dramatically across Iraq in recent months.

We went through the same things in Vietnam. The insurgents just keep adapting while remaining elusive. The key to "success" for them is the support(partly as a result of fear of the jihadists) they are getting from the population. And the Iraqi people want us out of Iraq. The surge doesn't address this:

The growing use of house bombs is part of a larger pattern of more complex and coordinated attacks against U.S. forces by al-Qaeda in Iraq. On May 12, soldiers in two parked Humvees were struck by a roadside bomb near Mahmudiyah, south of Baghdad, then ambushed by gunmen in a synchronized attack that the group said it had staged. Four soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter were killed in the ambush and three soldiers were kidnapped. One was later found dead; two remain missing.

And Generals just give us fantasy:
[Lt.Col.}Donnelly said that as U.S. troops become more skilled in identifying house bombs, al-Qaeda in Iraq will probably develop even more advanced techniques for attacking soldiers. But the American military's counterinsurgency abilities, assisted by increased cooperation from Iraqi citizens, would prevail, he said.

"There is no question that there is still a serious threat," Donnelly said. "But the gains we have made are tremendous. In the end, we will win, and they will be marginalized and pushed out."