I have a feeling that is the case too. We had to wait tooo long to get permission.
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Hopefully the armed forces are smarter than us, and that they planned for such a contingency.
Note the parallel between waiting to go into Fallujah and waiting to invade Iraq in the first place. Lets talk about it for months so that the enemy has plenty of time to hide their weapons and squirrel away its porcine leaders.