[WOSG]

"I acknowledged many times that the Fallujah Brigade was a Marine creation."

oh, well then! I wasted lots of bandwidth disputing that impression you gave!

[Rokke]

You and me both. I'm going to have to double my FR contribution next quarter. To be fair to elfman, he did grudgingly acknowledge that the Marines "helped train the Fallujah Brigade", but he absolutely refused to believe their withdrawal from Fallujah was also their own idea. I guess he assumes they were training the Brigade for the sole purpose of having them step into the middle of a nearly continuous firefight. Just between you and me, I think he knows he's wrong. But he'll never admit it publicly. In fact, he is currently sitting on the floor with his fingers in his ears and his face turning blue ignoring this post, because its easier to throw a tantrum than admit to being wrong.

[elfman2]

"oh, well then! I wasted lots of bandwidth disputing that impression you gave!"

Please. Show me one thing I said that would give a reasonable person the impression that I said the Fallujah Brigade was not a Marine creation or even that I was upset that it was “created”, and I’ll give you the biggest fattest apology you’ve ever seen on FR.