Where these so-called leaders the day of the murders! Where were their police. A city of 500,000 has a sizable police force...which they are now showing today at all the checkpoints they are setting up. These leaders could have ordered them into the streets to put down the violence and murdering but THEY chose not to.
Now that Bremer is making it apparant that this city will be pacified, and the military leaders are saying it will be forceful and effective...they come out with this?
town leaders rushed to denounce Wednesday's grisly killings
TOO LITTLE TOO LATE!
Short of them turning over hundreds of people who were seen involved with the murders and descecrations, short of them establishing total martial law and allowing our troops to come into Fallujah in strength to pacify the dissidents...to round them up...to establish interment camps...and then themsleves resigning and humbly and contritely agreeing to an interim government of the town established by US forces and administered by the same until the handover of power on June 30...in short, short of their abject surrender and self abasement before our forces...we should go in their an accomplish all of the same at the point of a bayonette.
Jeff
I hear ya, bro. My sentiments completely.
"Now that Bremer is making it apparant that this city will be pacified, and the military leaders are saying it will be forceful and effective...they come out with this?"
Here's the deal. The power brokers in this city are now terrifed by our cold blooded response thus far. The city is cordoned and the Marines can search one small sector at a time under the protective cover of scout sniper teams and whatever else is needed to make them keep their heads down. When our guys are done there will be no weapons left in this town. We can arrest their leaders including all of the imams and clan leaders and keep them in EPW pens for as long as we like.
These clowns now realize they went too far and they wish they could turn the clock back a week.