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2004-04-21 Iraq-Jordan

Iraqi insurgents attack US marines in Fallujah

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-04-21 1:09:44 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Ah yes, this is how Sadr and the Mahdi Army keep their word and truce.

They ahve now pronounced death sentences on themselves. They will leave Fallujah, toes first.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-04-21 1:27:58 AM|| 2004-04-21 1:27:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Fallujah will have to be levelled, no question about it. Evacuate the old, women and children. Arrest the young punks (summer is almost here, keep them in an outdoor prison). Finish off anybody with an AK or RPG. Level the place. Let reconstruction begin. Repeat with next town.

Posted by Rafael 2004-04-21 4:06:14 AM|| 2004-04-21 4:06:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Can't say I dislike your plan, Rafael...After all, we did give them a nice, long ceasefire to think about it.
And now that the deadenders in Falluja have found they can't get by the US Marines, they're trying a hit today in Basra to see how far the British Army can be pushed.
3 near simultaneous bombs, police stations and police academy hit ("they collaborate with the occupiers?"), 55 dead--at least 10 of them school chidren, and 200 wounded.
Bastards. Hope the Brits are ready.

Posted by Jen 2004-04-21 4:11:46 AM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-04-21 4:11:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Fallujah should be treated as Carthage by the Romans. Not one stone to be left on top of another, the ground salted and the people scattered throughout Iraq as a lesson to the others.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2004-04-21 7:50:28 AM|| 2004-04-21 7:50:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 whitecollar, that sorta thing lead to WWII

Posted by dcreeper 2004-04-21 12:05:20 PM|| 2004-04-21 12:05:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 dcreeper - I respect your opinion but my take on it is that sorta thing ended WWII. Think Hiroshima, Nagisaki. . . .

Posted by Doc8404 2004-04-21 2:29:40 PM|| 2004-04-21 2:29:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 "It's tit-for-tat, we're not seeing tat." Marine commanders have an elegant way of summing up a situation. This is just the "insurgents" way of turning in their heavy weapons. My guess is that, barring some dramatic collapse of will by the "insurgents" , the Marines will begin clearing the city on Saturday.

Posted by RWV 2004-04-21 2:59:00 PM|| 2004-04-21 2:59:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Old Spook, Sadr and his Mahdi army aren't in Fallujah, they are down in Najaf. Fallujah is filled with Sunni Ba'athists, Syrian knuckleads, and Al Queda fascists.

Posted by ruprecht 2004-04-21 3:54:05 PM|| 2004-04-21 3:54:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I hope whoever is calling the shots overthere will realize all the ceasefire did was allow the "insurgents" to debrief each other, learn from their mistakes, regroup, resupply and preposition hot spots to launch these kind of attacks.

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2004-04-22 10:19:41 AM|| 2004-04-22 10:19:41 AM|| Front Page Top

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