C'mon, let's get some perspective.
Fallujah is a city of 500,000 people. The Marines have taken seven KIAs in ten days there. This is GROUND ZERO of the last remnant of the Baathists. That's why our terminating guys were moved in.
If 500,000 folks wanted to kill our 25,000, they could have. They don't. They have a terrorist thug element, protected by their "religious" leaders, making life miserable for all involved.
We'll get 'em.
This ISN'T Somalia. We're gonna find, and kill, the bad guys. We've got them in a box here. This is the last violent skirmish. Fallujah is their Alamo. That's why the Marines are there.
But 499,500 Fallujans just want to survive. As we've learned in Tikrit, Mosul and Baghdad ... that last 1% is a Mofo.