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2004-05-01 Iraq-Jordan

Fallujah accord leaves US policy in disarray

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Posted by tipper 2004-05-01 1:44:45 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Who wrote this crap? Notice no mention of WHY we surrounded Fallujah in the first place.

Posted by PBMcL 2004-05-01 2:02:57 AM|| 2004-05-01 2:02:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Commentary from the Scotsman is a contra-indicator - when they start saying that things are hunky-dory, that's when I'll start worrying. (Like *all* British papers, they're fifth-rate garbage compared even to a rag like Newsday here in NYC).

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-05-01 2:15:09 AM|| 2004-05-01 2:15:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 The Marines destroyed the earthworks in the sourther part of the city because they don't need to be there anymore. If we believe the tidbits elsewhere and the analysis of the Belmont Club, the fight is in the northwest corner of the city.

Let the new Iraqi force garrison the pacified sectors of the city -- frees up the Marines, gives us a nice veneer, and lets us tell the UN to STFU.

Posted by Steve White 2004-05-01 3:04:51 AM|| 2004-05-01 3:04:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 There is obviously more to this story, but at some point the Iraqis have to take responsibility for security and we shouldn't be too choosy about which Iraqis do it. The question is whether FPA can bring law and order, and decrease terrorism.

I also think that Sunni leaders recognize that confrontation with the Americans will just result in them being disarmed and as a result they will get slaughtered by the Kurds and Shias when/if the civil war comes.

Posted by Phil B 2004-05-01 3:32:55 AM|| 2004-05-01 3:32:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Wretchard has dug up more interesting stuff on this here.

Posted by someone 2004-05-01 4:10:57 AM|| 2004-05-01 4:10:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 We never did get the guys who desecrated our people's corpses. Not good, in my view.

Posted by eLarson 2004-05-01 9:06:22 AM|| 2004-05-01 9:06:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 eLarson -- Not yet, we haven't, but IMO this isn't over. Plus, there's a significant chance that some, even many, of the desecrators are dead already.

Posted by docob 2004-05-01 9:31:20 AM|| 2004-05-01 9:31:20 AM|| Front Page Top

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