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"An agreement has been negotiated with the occupation forces to lift the siege of Fallujah and to withdraw. We are hoping you will cooperate to protect Fallujah and guarantee its security," the message said.

WTF

Well that's just bogus. This negotiation with/appeasement of terrorists is just wrong. And I'm not buying it.

April Fools?

"An agreement has been negotiated with the occupation forces to lift the siege of Fallujah and to withdraw. We are hoping you will cooperate to protect Fallujah and guarantee its security," the message said.

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Sounds to me like our guys are telling the paramilitary force, "Okay, you've got X hours to bring us the perps, and then we're taking over."

Peace in our time.

WTF?

Nah.

Predictable.

The commanders in control of the troops around Fallujah seem to be extremely incompetent. They knew this attack was happening and they did NOTHING to respond. I have even seen some reports that they pulled troops back from the edge of the City when they weren't even near the scene! It just seems incredibly incompetent to allow these Iraqi scumbags to mutilate and play with the corpses of retired elite soldiers, openly in front of several people and cameras without doing a damn thing to stop it or retrieve the bodies. They could have used an A-10 or some kind of air strike to disperse the crowd and get them away from the bodies.

Honestly the Marines aren't preforming as well as I expected they would. I'm not blaming it on the individual Marines but their commanders seem to reacting in a strange way. That's just my humble opinion and I admit I have no qualifications to make that accusation. Do any of you guys have a take on this? It just seems the war is much more politically correct now than it was before. Something seems to be wrong with some of the decisions they have been making over there lately. Especially the lack of action during yesterday's event and the reports of withdrawing from our positions around Fullujah.

Even if we were planning to withdraw from the city before the latest attacks it would be a big mistake to do it now. We must not only stay where we are, we must go on a massive and extremely aggressive and violent offensive in retaliation for the horror's committed by the terrorist scum in Fallujah. I really don't know what the problem is. I don't think anyone on Free Republic can understand why no one ever made any attempt whatsoever to get the bodies of our ex Navy SEAL's and Army Ranger who it looks like became fish food and dog food.

I may not be an expert on Military issues but I know there were things we could have done to stop what happened yesterday. Maybe we couldn't have entirely stopped it, but we definitely could have stopped it before it got to the point it did. We could have dropped a bomb and blew some of these scumbags into pieces and the rest would have scattered and got the message to stop. Maybe that would have mutilated the already dead Americans but there's a lot more dignity in that than the humiliation of a public mutilation by evil and ignorant scum.

Some of this stuff is confusing though. I hope that an agreement hasn't been negotiated with the occupation force to withdraw from Fullujah. That would show extreme weakness and would be close to outright surrender. The only reason we should withdraw from the outskirts of the city is if we are preparing for a major bombing campaign and are just getting out of the way. We need to level Fallujah and any liberal who complains about it in this country should be shown the video of the mutilations. I believe the majority of Americans would support the leveling of Fallujah even if the liberals complained. Once someone watched that video or seen those pictures they would understand exactly why we had to do it.

I wish Bush would just get on the phone with someone and tell them to go ahead and take drastic measures in Fallujah. Drastic measures by today's standards were common and effective warfare to us in the past. Everyone is so worried about how we will look to the world and liberals here at home that we can't even fight a war. Bush could send down an order for our generals to take off the gloves, but I think everyone is too worried about how people will react if we do that. We could possible lose our coalition. But we should do something aggressively no matter what because it will save American lives. No more PC BS.