[Warlord David]

Now how many cease fires does this make?

And how many more will it take to win this battle?

Best Wishes to the troops, they should be well confuse by now.

Simon says: Fire!, Simon says: Cease Fire! And on and on it goes.

[Pearls Before Swine]

fighters must also "lay down their arms" and renounce their membership in extremist groups

That's great, since their word is their bond. /sarcasm>

[Rams82]

It seems to me this ceasefire is only applied to one side...

[Chairman Fred]

Self-illuminating glass parking lot.

[tubavil]

US policy is IN-SANE.

You don't negotiate with, hold truces with, or have ceasefires with arab muslim terrorists.

You kill them.

[Tunehead54]

I am hoping this is diplomatic translation of the "Submit or Die! message from yesterday (Was that Kimmet?). If we take control of Fallujah without losing any more men then good - otherwise we've got to hammer them - sigh."

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:-(

[ibtheman]

FORGET THE CEASEFIRE, ENCIRCLE THE CITY, GO DOOR TO DOOR! Take on the entire city, Allow the marine corp to get some PAY BACK! I served in the corp, I would want some payback, the marine corp way! The only thing those idiots need is a bullet, that would be the only way for a cease fire to work, kill all the enemy. Those rebels want to meet allah, let the marines send them to there fake god allah, which is the devil!

[CatOwner]

If this truly is a ceasefire ... oh, never mind! I'll just be called a DU'er or something worse for what I was about to say.

[JebRudy2008]

When Falujah looks like Grozny
When there are no more terrorists shooting at our troops
When every mosque that is used as cover and to indoctrinate more islamofascists is rubble

then there will be a ceasefire

[Antoninus]

Most even-handed article I've seen on this yet. Perhaps the Jerusalem Post will become our go-to source for information?

US commanders have said that for a truce to hold, the militants must hand over the Iraqis who killed and mutilated four American civilians on March 31 and allow the return of Iraqi police to their stations to keep order, Othman said.

No chance of this happening.

Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt told reporters Saturday that fighters must also "lay down their arms" and renounce their membership in extremist groups to fully end the insurgency that has made Fallujah its stronghold.

No chance of this happening. Thus, the truce fails, though it looks like we tried to make it work. Next step: stomp the cr@p out of these lunatics.

[Criminal Number 18F]

Some media sources reported that the three Japanese hostages were released Sunday morning. Tokyo has not confirmed the reports.

This is not surprizing. The Japanese were anti-American radicals looking to meet their Iraqi pals and stage a media event. Mission accomplished.

The helicopter that was shot down, unfortunately the crew of two was killed. Names to be released after NOK notification is complete.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[ASA Vet]

On April fools day General Kimmitt said regarding our response to the murder mutilation of four Americans,

"It will be at a time and a place of our choosing.
It will be methodical, it will be precise and it will be
overwhelming."

I'm still waiting for the "overwhelming" part.