The US armor - and tactics - were sufficient to defeat the dead-enders' weapons and tactics. (In certain circumstances, speed plus communications amounts to stealth.) But the terrorists must not have known that, or they wouldn't have attacked. Why didn't they know that?
Oh, and by the way, standard practise when you've been ambushed is to drive right through as fast as you can, in order to escape. You only shoot it out when...
C'mon, don't you get it? These are reverse ambushes! That convoy was a trap. The loot was bait. Our guys hid their strength and readiness from the would-be ambushers. You'd think after getting deposed they'd be a little less cocksure, but no. These guys don't learn. They've got this superiority complex. They can't admit to themsleves they're being outsmarted. They're probably still telling themselves last April was a fluke and a temporary setback. Just like the idiotarian Left.
This is how we lure them out and kill them in detail. One reverse ambush at a time, bag at least a couple dozen each time.
The truth is almost certainly closer to one end than the middle. There were enough left alive to come back and drag out most of the corpses of their fallen comrades. That's it.
By the way, I think Dubya is up to something similar on the political front. I'm not quite positive yet, but we'll know for sure next election. That last Payback Tuesday sure looked like a reverse ambush to me.
I also think he's been attempting a reverse ambush on the UN Security Council, but Tony Blair and the US State Department are mucking it up a bit. The weasels take the bait, but the trap is clumsily sprung.