[Rokke]

Just for you, a Readers Digest version...elfman2 claims the Marines didn't come up with their plan to withdraw from Fallujah. He's wrong.

[A Jovial Cad]

*Just for you, a Readers Digest version...*

Ha, ha, okay. I enjoy reading a witty riposte, even if it's directed at me.

*elfman2 claims the Marines didn't come up with their plan to withdraw from Fallujah. He's wrong.*

I don't follow what you're specifically referring to in his posts, but I'll let elfman2 speak to that. I think his general point, and one well-taken, is that the *overall* policy is being muddled by conflicting directives from way, way above the field level--just like it was done in a certain Southeast Asian country 30+ years ago. And we all *know* what a bang-up success *that* turned out to be....