[section9]

Fallujah may be realizing that this act of craven barbarism was, at long last, over the line. Looks like some of the local imams got some phone calls from some of the senior people in Baghdad. Looks like they have also heard that the Americans will move in hard, fast, and with deliberation.

The imams would not speak out against the local insurgents if they did not fear the Americans. Wretchard at The Belmont Club points out that the Americans have already set up a strict cordon sanitaire around the city. First Marine Division is getting ready for cordon and search operations along the lines of the MOUT exercises at Quantico.

The Imams know this. They also know by now that most of the rest of the country was disgusted with this act of brutality. They are cut off, politically.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[eureka!]

Well said, especially on the political cost to the area's 'leaders' with the upcoming transition. This area will be on the sh*tlist for the new administration. I was also surprised by the strength, make that foreboding sound, of the comments from the military and W on this. Methinks the malefactors will regret their day in the sun and seeming adoration and Mogadishu agitprop by the leftist press...

[Robert_Paulson2]

First Marine Division is getting ready for cordon and search operations along the lines of the MOUT exercises at Quantico.

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got a brief description of that kind of operation for us uninformed and ignorant ones?


M. O. U. T.?

[happygrl]

They are cut off, politically

You've nailed it.

The Shia and the Kurds will make their lives miserable.

I couldn't be happier, except for that moment when the pigs are flushed our of the stye at the point of Marine Bayonets.