[jocon307]

JUST KEEP KILLING THEM. AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU. JUST KEEP KILLING THEM.

[get'emall]

"They are no more."

"... I can always go kinetic."

and the ever-popular "Tap them."

I love these guys.

[mylife]

Id like to see this attempt to upset the coalition plan overthrown before the summer heat bogs us down

[HurricaneD]

"Recon found [the insurgents], they were engaged, and then Specter gunships let loose," said the sniper. "They are no more."


Gives real meaning to the term "teamwork".

[stylin19a]

Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations envoy who is helping draft an Iraqi interim government urged the Bush administration Sunday to "tread carefully" in besieged Fallujah and avoid alienating an already angry populace.

He's been on board about what? 30 seconds ? and he's already talking UN crappola.

[Rokke]

I am so glad the Marines are in charge, and not the band of idiots on FreeRepublic who claim MOABs are the only answer.

[LaGrone]

Line them up hundreds at a time, and may the force be with our brave soldiers and Marines. GOD SPEED!

[samtheman]

The usual gung-ho of some marines is giving way to a recognition of political costs - and that they are chipping away at the guerrillas anyway. "I think what we're doing is the right way to do it - we're creating a rapport. We're not here to occupy," says Staff Sgt. Jason Valez, from New York City. "At the same time, we're not going to be pushed over or bullied. It's definitely going to work, it just takes time.

"Marines have been doing a good job with precise fire," says Sergeant Valez. "We're not just going to roll in."

This one Staff Sergeant has a far greater understanding of the situation than an entire generation of college professors and media professionals. It's amazing.

[jackbill]

Beside the early Saturday operation that US officers say killed 30 at a farmhouse south of Fallujah - when the 105mm Howitzer and 40mm cannons of the AC-130 Specter gunship engaged the hideout - another battle in the early hours Sunday killed another 11.

Don't you just love the sound of an AC-130 in the morning?

[Coop]

Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations envoy who is helping draft an Iraqi interim government urged the Bush administration Sunday to "tread carefully" in besieged Fallujah and avoid alienating an already angry populace. Before leaving Iraq he described the siege as unacceptable collective punishment. Asked about that Sunday, Brahimi said: "When you surround a city, you bomb the city, when people cannot go to hospital, what name do you have for that? And you, if you have enemies there, this is exactly what they want you to do, to alienate more people so that more people support them rather than you.

I'm sorry. I must have missed the insightful U.N. solution to Fallujah in his answer. Perhaps Sen. Kerry could explain it to me.