[Carry_Okie]

"I don't feel safe because the Americans themselves are not safe," police Capt. Jassim Abed said. "They get shot at. They can't guarantee safety for themselves, so how can they guarantee my safety?"

Dude, you are paid to be a cop. Safety is not guaranteed.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Oh goody. More "ammo" for the "Bush is a wuss - we should kill everything that moves" crowd.

[txhurl]

Thanks. The other thread is too visceral.

[GeronL]

There is apparently some major fighting in northern Falluja right now...

[OXENinFLA]

http://www.defenselink.mil/briefings/

Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy director of operations for Coalition Joint Task Force 7, and Dan Senor, senior advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority, will conduct an operational update from Baghdad at 9:30 a.m. EDT. This event can be viewed in the Press Briefing Room. Media wishing to attend must be at the Pentagon North Parking Entrance no later than 9:00 a.m. EDT for escort.

[FreedomPoster]

We seem to be killing Jihadis at a comfortable rate during the "cease fire". I'm all for more "cease fires" of this sort. We are winning both the propaganda war and the shooting war with this approach.

[kinghorse]

"Joint U.S.-Iraqi patrols of Fallujah are due to start on Tuesday under an agreement struck on Sunday between U.S. officials and negotiators for civic leaders in the town. But local people remain skeptical that such a deal can work."

"“I expect the U.S. and Iraqi forces to be exposed targets for the resistance. No one can control the feelings of the sons of Fallujah because they are very angry,” said local resident Abdul Hakim Shaker."

The sons of Fallujah need to die after the drawing and quartering of Americans that occured there. Our boys were drawn and quartered. Why are we negotiating? Elimination of fighting age males should be the goal. If the other cities don't get it, wash, rinse, repeat as necessary. The arab street can kiss my irish ass.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Seems like the terrorists didn't get the message to stop shooting at the Marines.

Battle in Fallujah; Blast Levels Baghdad Building

[snip] Thick black smoke rose from Fallujah's Jolan district, a poor neighborhood thought to have a heavy concentration of Sunni insurgent fighters.

The firefight began Monday morning after a Marine platoon left their small base and moved 200 yards away to occupy two small houses. Enemy forces opened up with barrage of rockets, mortar and automatic weapons.

[snp]In the south, U.S. troops rolled into a base in Najaf to replace Spanish forces who are withdrawing and to increase pressure on the militia of anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. The deployment brings the Americans about three miles from holy sites at the heart of the city.

Overnight, al-Sadr's forces shelled the base with 21 mortars, and one Salvadoran soldier was wounded, said Col. Pat White, commander of the U.S. 2nd Battalion, 37th Armored Regiment, which moved into the base.

[Blood of Tyrants]

P.S. It looks as though the Marine platoon was sent out on a mission to draw fire, i.e. darn near a suicide mission, and it is a miricle none of them were killed.

[kinghorse]

As long as Iraqis are allowed to react like jackals when a US asset gets destroyed, there is a big damn problem. I for one am in favor of a policy clearly explained to the general populace that these vehicles will be destroyed from the air when they are damaged on the ground. And then vaporize the remnants along with all the jackals. Shouldn't be long before the notion of property rights is registered into their heads.

[mhking]

Cease fire = appeasement.

'Nuff said.

Just damn.

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[petercooper]

Cease-Fire sounds oh so French. Why are we pussyfooting around with talks of deals, and negotiations. We have never looked so weak.