"The insurgents didn't win anything except the chance to be killed at a later time by our soldiers, and at one more fortuitous for our guys. Going into the town would have been much more dangerous for the Marines, and the Sadr thugs were beginning to lose any support they may have had in the town."
Wrong town: Shiite Sadrists were not in Fallujah, which is Sunni.
78 posted on 05/26/2004 6:14:48 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie
(Islam: Nothing BEER couldn't cure.)