[Joe Hadenuf]

They were killed in a well organized ambush.

Well organized ambush? Right in town? In broad daylight? If it was organized, why didn't any friendlys warn them before the arrived at the ambush point?

Their corpses were burned and trashed by an organized mob after the armed ambushers were long gone.

So the mob was organized too? Where those little kids that were beating on the dead American's part of this organized mob?

Even if our troops had arrived just minutes after the intial hit, they would have found no military targets.

What, are we waiting for that *organized* mob of fanatics to become stronger, so one day we can consider them a military target?

[Happy2BMe]

Is it not incredible that after 9/11's savagery which was reflected in the Fallujah mob there are still people around here that thing that the answer is still to appease these animals?

"And now we see the consequence of weakness."

[Rokke]

"Well organized ambush?"
Yes

"Right in town?"
Yes

"In broad daylight?"
Yes

"If it was organized, why didn't any friendlys warn them before the arrived at the ambush point?"
Not too many friendlies in Fallujah. The men who were ambushed were civilians escorting a civilian truck convoy. This wasn't a military operation. That's not to say it wasn't professional. But many of the assets that support a military operation weren't supporting this one. The mob that burned the bodies of the Americans killed, was not a military target. Sorry, but that is a simple fact, and our military does not train its combatants to purposely violate the laws of armed conflict.