Fallujah again in the line of US fire...

[bridgit]

'FALLUJAH, Iraq - After enduring two major assaults, Fallujah, a key city in the western province al-Anbar, is under threat from US forces again. This coincides with news of a classified US intelligence report that the Pentagon is taking "very seriously" - that US forces are losing control of Anbar.

The report, written by Colonel Pete Devlin, the chief of intelligence for the Marine Corps in Iraq, and cited in the US media, said a shortage of US and Iraqi troops in Anbar and the collapse of local governments had left a vacuum that had been exploited by al-Qaeda in Iraq. It painted a poor picture of security prospects in Anbar, which includes Fallujah and Ramadi, Sunni resistance strongholds. It said that the US had been defeated politically, if not militarily, in the province.'

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HI13Ak03.html

[2Design]

1. city they went and killed or would not let out males of fighting age

When the other news story came out about having been ordered to kill the males - I remember they did this to a whole city - no wonder they are losing - they created a lot more terriorist the last time they were there - * war is a great recruitment tool for the other side

[bridgit]

3. this is rumsfeld's plan, screw it all sideways, use people as cannon...

fodder, make profits off the no-bid crony replenish & refurbishment contracts, and then retire next to cheney and Meyers up on their 'no fly over' estates...it's disgusting

[Mr_Spock]

2. Time for Bushco to murder some more of thar "Islamofascists"

There is no humanity in these people.

[bridgit]

4. no shame to their game...

[Imagevision]

5. With Iran-Iraq signing deal today, it's a new game...

[bridgit]

7. bush has already lost the wrong war...there's no telling what comes...

next imo, all his 'jolly green giant' bluster, the loss of so much blood & life for what may be shown to have been nothing...and he chides us for not honoring the fallen by being unwilling to throw more down into his pit...disgusting to me

[Selatius]

6. 75% of the city's infrastructure was destroyed in US attacks on Fallujah

I guess we can drop some more white phosphorus and cook people to teach them a lesson. "Shake and Bake" operations are in order.

:sarcasm:

[bridgit]

8. i think they are just chomping at the bit, to use non-conventional...

weapons...as with vietnam, they have been using iraq as an active weapons & war laboratory

[Erika]

9. My marine nephew was one of the kill squads to retake the City

lat time. It cost him a concussion and scraping ip a friend.

How many times is Bushco going to do this?

[bridgit]

10. my sense is that until we explain to him in no uncertain terms that he...

is simply not allowed to destroy America, or the world; and we do not care what his mom & dad have told him as to his notion that he could; muslims, or americans, or iraq's, these are real people, real flesh & blood he is toying with