[Prospero]

Overnight, between the rusty gun turn-in, and the decision to turn over the town to Iraqi authorities, combined forces put about 70 percent of the insurgents to death from above. That's about 90 percent of the reason the city has seemed so relatively quiet.

[OldFriend]

Let's not confuse the critics with the logic of Faluja.

This area was so unstable even Saddam Hussein wouldn't enter.

[TomasUSMC]

combined forces put about 70 percent of the insurgents to death from above.

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So whats the problem, if there just 30 percent left, get them too, quit when you get to 98 percent. It would have taken just a few days for that last 28 percent.

Instead we gave victory to the losing 30 percent.