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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?

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

The guys who ambushed the car, build and deploy the roadside bombs and level RPG attacks are remnants of Saddam's professional assassins. They are NOT Fallujahians in armed revolt. These guys are professional killers.

There are several, perhaps many ... local residents who have knowledge of their location and activities. They are menacing strangers, and somebody is going to step up for money or country and give them up. That's how we've nailed all these creeps to the wall.

We're now facing the worst of the worst. Soulless animals who, if captured, would hang at the end of a rope for their evil crimes. They don't intend to hang, their last best desperate try is to create events that would cause America to overplay her hand and react with violence that kills innocents and destroys their cities. It's the same gambit the Shi'ite cleric is waging. His power and standing is to create a religious rift, bait America into a response that entails civilian death, and exploit the event to fracture Shi'ite support for a democratic Iraq.

They understand the June 30 date, they are hoping to create religious, ethnic or nationalistic strife, and Bush will not let it happen. Our measured, rational reaction to the outrageous murder and desecration of last week IS sending a message to Fallujihans. We are to be trusted.

Sorry, you don't get your pound of Fallujahian flesh. The lives and future of 290 million Americans, 25 million Iraqis and freedom loving citizens of the civilized world take precedent over indiscriminate revenge.

We're not Sonny Corleone in an emotional rage passing through the tollbooth. We, our CIC, operate like Michael.

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana (1863 - 1952)