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2004-07-18 Iraq-Jordan

U.S. Targets 'Zarqawi' Safehouse in Fallujah

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Posted by 2004-07-18 12:14:25 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 IMHO - there are no innocent civilians left in Fallujah

Posted by Frank G 2004-07-18 12:29:06 PM|| 2004-07-18 12:29:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Local residents said the attack destroyed a house filled with civilians.

Heavily armed civilians, from various countries, all with jihad on their pea-brains...

Posted by Anonymous 2004-07-18 3:00:08 PM|| 2004-07-18 3:00:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Weren't Atta and the boys "civilians." Well-- if it's wrong to kill the civilians in Fullujah, I don't want to be right.

Posted by Anonymous5784 2004-07-18 3:31:28 PM|| 2004-07-18 3:31:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Do I read this correctly to say that our Baathist buddy running the Fallujah force wasn't consulted before the strike?

Not a bad tactic, I suspect, if that's what happened. Let him and his buddies keep the town under control vs. the jihadists, but don't trust him to really be on the side of the new Iraqi government.

Keep this sort of thing in mind when you hear that the Marines "failed" and that our strategy in Iraq lacked the subtlety to deal with the situation ....

Posted by rkb 2004-07-18 3:34:35 PM|| 2004-07-18 3:34:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 JDAM akbar! Precision GPS and JDAMs change the paradigm. All you need are the right coordinates and retribution rains from the sky. I'm thinking of a lighter-than-air RPV with a belly full of JDAMs on permanent station over Fallujah. Land it once a week to reload. In the words of Louis Armstrong, "What a wonderful world."

Posted by RWV 2004-07-18 3:47:50 PM|| 2004-07-18 3:47:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 My understanding is that there were 200 or so foreign terrorists. Quick math suggests 10 or so more JDAMs, unless we can get a two for one special somewhere.

I can just see those terrorists praying to Allah while glancing up to see if there will be more "hard rain" falling.

Posted by Capt America 2004-07-18 4:37:41 PM|| [http://captamerica.blogspot.com/] 2004-07-18 4:37:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 send the jihadists to the hottest...most painful part of Hell, and give 'em their 72 raisenettes, too. I hope they all look like Helen Thomas and Madelyn Albright.

Posted by anymouse 2004-07-18 5:25:57 PM|| 2004-07-18 5:25:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Maddie Halfbright? Oh Anymouse you are a cruel one aren't you.....

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-07-18 6:32:59 PM|| 2004-07-18 6:32:59 PM|| Front Page Top

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