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Recent Attacks in Fallujah
Published on October 4, 2004 By Bahu Virupaksha In Politics
The War in Iraq is as good as lost. With every passing day tne support within Iraq for the American war effort is coming down. The real reason for this is the dispropotionate use of force in civillian areas by the "coalition forces". Whole blocks of residential areas have been destroyed in the spate of attaks in Fallujah. The American do not venture anywhere near the city after 2 in the afternoon when the Resistance Forces take over the streets. Theis is affecting the morale of the troops, and under a pall of frustration the ground command aks for areal attacks. In one such attack 22 members of a single family were killed including children..
With such vicious attacks going on it is no wonder that the Game plan of the US has started unravelling. The Allawi government may be well intetioned but it does not have any credibility.

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on Oct 05, 2004
The threshold of sustainable casualities has been crossed and it is time to walk away leaving tne UN to set the stage for a legitimate governemnt.


Do you really think the UN will do this? They left the country after one bomb late last year. Look how they have created suability in Rwanda and Sudan. The only time they have successfully got a Government up and running is when we had sent troops.

That's My Two Cents
on Oct 05, 2004
I can't imagine a full scale war with less civilian casualties than this. Can you possibly imagine how many civilians lost their lives during the bombing of berlin, for instance? We've gone from carpet bombing and napalm to precision strikes and total refusal to attack when civilians are in the way, all in a single generation.

Soldiers are dying so that civilians won't be killed. These "no go" zones could be turned into parking lots if we weren't concerned about innocents. "Arab sources" inflate casualties, "Arab sources" consider most of the terrorists "civilian". Over and over we are told that people who harbor, support, and actively engage in terrorist attacks are "civilians". No offense, but if you are working in a metal shop in Gaza that makes bombs and rockets, you are not a civilian...

I dread the idea of Kerry winning, but if it happens it will be utterly hilarious to watch all these expectations melt and see the "anyone but Bush" crowd turn on their own...
on Oct 05, 2004
You'll never convince people like BakerStreet that Arab sources can be accurate. He obviously thinks that Arab journalists are all liars -- it might be a racist thing, but I'd hate to think that.
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