[sarasota]

I think we've been "careful" long enough.

[LetsRok]

Its about time!!! A building is a mosque if it is used for religon. It is a fortress if the inhabitants use it to conduct military operations. A fortress is a legitimate military target.

[dc-zoo]

Its about time they hit them bastards where they hide. Now is time to smoke out Sadr from his hole in Najaf.

[cripplecreek]

The geneva convention doesnt allow attacks on religious sites.......UNLESSS they are used in a military manner.

[Peter J. Huss]

What is notable is that we still have not taken the gloves off.

If we wanted to, we could use extensive air bombing (not with smart bombs, but with unguided ones) and artillery 'fire for effect'.

Of course, there is the nuclear option, but that is likely politically impossible.

[FreedomPoster]

I'm wondering about the extensiveness of the secondary explosions. Hope there is some video.

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[Samwise]

Five Marines had been shot from the mosque before commanders authorized the use of air power and laser-guided missiles against it.

Will Jennings/Rather/Brokaw include this information in their nightly reports?

[StriperSniper]

after taking several hours of fire from insurgents who were using it as cover to attack Marines advancing through the city.

Five Marines had been shot from the mosque before commanders authorized the use of air power and laser-guided missiles against it.

That was five Marines too many!

[grobdriver]

"We've got to be careful," said one officer receiving a request for air support from the Marines around the mosque.

GET THIS IDIOT OUT OF THE LOOP!
WWPD (What Would Patton Do)?
Fire the moron on the spot and call in an air strike!

[MEG33]

New info on the Mosque bombing

[TrueBeliever9]

They had rejected the air attack several times, according to Marine officers and radio communications monitored from a command post by a Washington Post reporter.

Shame on those officers who delayed. Five Marines shot - pray our officers do not give the enemy a safe haven! They are going to rise up regardless - let's stack the cards on our behalf instead of theirs.

[evad]

These bastards will hide behind anything..
women, children, mosques, you name it.

There are no limits to their cowardice.

[veronica]

Five Marines had been shot from the mosque before commanders authorized the use of air power and laser-guided missiles against it....

'Nuff said.

[Heatseeker]

FWIW, in Sunni Islam there is no special sanctity attached to a mosque. It's simply a building you can worship in (or do other stuff in, as the guys were trying to do when they got an express ticket to 72virginland.

It is perfectly OK to pray anywhere else; some hold the best place to pray is out in the open sands.

[OXENinFLA]

From the article.

The mosque was one of two that insurgents had used during fighting Wednesday in Fallujah, where four American contractors were killed and mutilated a week ago. The Marines managed to clear the second mosque without air power.

[MEG33]

We actually delayed the hit .

[JCEccles]

Chances are pretty fair that everyone in the Mosque was a bad guy. Anyone not involved in firing on Marines likely left long ago.

They obligingly bunched up and gave us the chance to take all of them out with a missile and a bomb.

Not very smart.

[RightOnline]

I say we show as much respect to their mosques as they show to our churches and to Jewish synagogues.

Level the sumbitches.

[CurlyBill]

Erase Fallujah

... then deny it ever existed.