Al Jazeera: US: Fierce Falluja fighting recalls Vietnam

Al Jazeera ^ | Thursday 08 April 2004, 22:57 Makka Time, 19:57 GMT

[Numbers Guy]

Does that mean we get to start using napalm?

[admiralsn]

So now Al J is towing the Democratic party line. Guess we know whose side they are on.

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[boris]

"Does that mean we get to start using napalm?"

I think we should pull out and reduce the entire city to smoking rubble from the air.

--Boris

[facedown]

Thanks alot, Teddy.

Jagdork traitor.

[snooker]

So how old was this sadr guy during the Vietnam war?

[demlosers]

One guy can basically hold down a whole squad. He shoots from one window and pops in another. They are fierce and very determined but they can't shoot straight. They are basically spraying and praying."

Noise makers

[optik_b]

Sounds like the Sunnis and Shiites are teaming up now. Sunni and Shiite Iraqis join forces as they load food supplies on trucks before heading to Fallujah, Iraq (news - web sites), from the Um Al Qura mosque in west Baghdad Thursday April 8 2004. Truckloads of food supplies and medicine donated by Iraqis are being taken to Fallujah, where more than 280 Iraqis have been killed and 400 wounded this week in the U.S. Marines' siege of insurgents in this city west of Baghdad, the director of Fallujah's hospital said Thursday. (AP PHOTO/Samir Mizban)

[jwalsh07]

50,000 dead VC and NVA.

If only Fallujah was like Tet as far as their casualties are concerned.

[Sender]

If we flattened Fallujah, in truth there are probably more hostiles there than innocents, but that's not how the world would see it. It would be an al Jazeera photo bazaar of dead children, women etc even if they had to look really hard to find one. It would be a PR nightmare.

So that leaves the ugly and dangerous urban fighting that is going on right now. Lots of Marines are going to die, and a hundredfold more bad guys, and a few civilians who were in the wrong place. It's really a shame that whether we win convincingly and quickly or not, the spin over much of the world will be violently anti-American. But that is hardly news, eh? I certainly won't lose any sleep if we just drop the big one on Fallujah and say that's that. Good riddance and a good example for the rest.

[CasearianDaoist]

These people have no idea what Vietnam was like. We should show them.

[thoughtomator]

Unfortunately for the enemy, they're trying to defend a flat, empty desert, not a thick, forbidding jungle.

[TomGuy]

Well, even al-Jazeera and al-Sadr get the dems' talkingpointsmemo. "VietNam! VietNam! Quagmire Quagmire!"

[EternalVigilance]

The Swimmers talking points fax list sure is interesting.

[EternalVigilance]

Maybe Teddy is just mad that his family didn't get to start this one...

[illiac]

Looks like Teddy and Kerry's words are being used against us......none dare call it treason????

[man of Yosemite]

We've been extremely merciful so far. There are not miles upon miles of jungle and tunnels to hide in. Knock down their buildings and point a line of tanks at them and this would be over. Somebody had better decide that we should fight to win, take whatever steps are necessary and crush them. Alexander the Great didn't conquer the world by being politically correct. If our future is at stake, let's prove we mean it.

[mtbopfuyn]

Thank you Teddy and Kerry. Every drop of blood is on your hands. I would be banned for what I'm thinking of you and your ilk but rest assured I and many others will remember your acts of treason come election time.

For all the doom and gloom and body counts, AJ repeated several times we were advancing and that's what matters. This is for all the marbles.

[M Kehoe]

I read this article ( US forces pinned down ) , which leads me to think, "the USA is getting their a$$kicked." But for some reason (al Jazeera), I understand it exactly the opposite. Go figure?

5.56mm