[Barlowmaker]

"Kill them all, burn the town to the ground, bulldoze it level and spread salt all over it!

While Al Jazeera cameras record it all."

Here's a second option:

How about we change our tactical plan with an assumption that 99.9% of Fallujahans are not killers, do not desecrate the dead, want prosperty and liberty and security for themselves and their families?

We want to find and eliminate the .01% who are setting the roadside bombs, planning outrageous atrocities like the murder and desecration of the civilian security pros, and staging attacks with the design to elicit emotional overreaction. We want to find and kill butchers who have no investment in the successful future of the people and
economy of Fallujah post Saddam.

I'm amazed so many people on this forum have been sucked into the emotional, divisive vortex the event was designed to create. The Marines were on their way to Fallujah before the murder and desecration. That's why the event was staged. Do you think that AFP photographer just stumbled upon this event driving around Fallujah looking for a story?

This is a Hail Mary for the elements who wish to sabotauge American resolve to support and secure a stable, free and prosperous Iraq. They know what that outcome would mean to the dynamics of terrorism, despotism and radical Islamism. They know the impact a successful Iraq will have on the repressed masses of Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon and the Palestinians.

The merchants of international terror, despotism and ignorance cannot let the Iraq quest succeed. We're going to ensure it does. As long as George W. Bush calls the shots, we're going to pursue American national security interests. That means a free, prosperous and liberated Iraq.

It's happening with or without the media spin and their frantic agenda to create disillusion, demoralization and hopelessness. We owe the 25 million Iraqis who have not attacked the 170,000 American soldiers and civilian professionals who they understand are working for their future, to not permit thugs numbering in the thousands to steal our unbending commitment to the 25 million Iraqis who are depending on our resolve.

[boxerblues]

Thank you for posting a rational post. My gut tells me we need to wipe them out, my head however tells me that only puts us in the same catagory as those who brutally murdered those 4 men. A very strong message does need to be sent to stop this from happening again. We cannot afford to cut & run or sit back and wait to see if it happens again.

[easonc52]

to not permit thugs numbering in the thousands to steal our unbending commitment to the 25 million Iraqis who are depending on our resolve.

Eloquently and probrably correctly stated.

One of the problems seems to be that we don’t have the opportunity to see all the good our country is doing there. That said, it’s still difficult to see the small percentage causing so much pain to so many families here.

No desire or intent to give up. Just difficult...

[Robert_Paulson2]

How about we change our tactical plan with an assumption that 99.9% of Fallujahans are not killers, do not desecrate the dead, want prosperty and liberty and security for themselves and their families?

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Rose colored glasses, rolling on the floor laughing my arse off...