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BUSH MAKES THE CALL: NO FULL SCALE FALLUJAH OFFENSIVE
The Drudge Report ^
| April 25, 2004
| Matt Drudge
Posted on 04/25/2004 5:30:14 PM PDT by threat matrix
developing tonight..header for now
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bush43; bushknew; charliefoxtrot; cic; fallujah; ghost1of1lbj; iraq; johnson; jointpatrols; lbj; lbj2; lbj3rises; lyndonbainesjohnsosn; marines; notvietnam; presidentjohnson; repeatnotvietnam; vietnam; vietnam1dos; vietnam1duex; vietnam2; vietnamagain; vietnamii; vietnamlessons; vietnampart2
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To: threat matrix
U.S. Marines have postponed plans to mount an attack against insurgents in Fallujah and instead will attempt to regain control of the violence-wracked city without a full-scale offensive... Concerned about the repercussions an attack could generate across Iraq and the Arab world, senior U.S. military and civilian officials have decided to try to confront a band of hard-core Sunni Muslim insurgents by having Marines conduct patrols in the city alongside Iraqi security forces... Developing...
To: threat matrix
"The whole world is watching! The whole world is watching!"
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posted on
04/25/2004 5:31:38 PM PDT
by
Archangelsk
(Adam Smith rules!)
To: victoryatallcosts
I hope they're right. Pity.
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posted on
04/25/2004 5:31:46 PM PDT
by
Sender
(It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. -Aristotle)
To: victoryatallcosts
This is gonna get more Marines killed. I say to hell with opinion. They already hate us.
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posted on
04/25/2004 5:32:24 PM PDT
by
DCBryan1
To: victoryatallcosts
As much as I hate to say it, it's probably the right call. The only real reason to bother fighting for the city street-by-street would be, well, I can't think of a very good reason to do so if they're contained within. After all, there doesn't sound like there's much reason to give a damn about the civilians in that particular city. Let them rot.
In a better time, we'd simply raze the city: but now isn't such a time.
To: threat matrix
NOW it's Vietnam!
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posted on
04/25/2004 5:33:21 PM PDT
by
Lunatic Fringe
(John F-ing Kerry??? NO... F-ING... WAY!!!)
To: Sender
I'm still waiting for the "human shields".
Huh, nowhere to be found?
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posted on
04/25/2004 5:33:33 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: victoryatallcosts
Its sunday night on Drudge again
To: threat matrix
I'm afraid this will mean more dead Marines than necessary. This is a big mistake.
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posted on
04/25/2004 5:34:10 PM PDT
by
jayef
To: tet68
"Compassionate" conservatism.
Bull Hockey.
To: threat matrix
the LARGE HEADLINE aside, we've been talking about this on 3 different threads today.
the consensus seems to be that it isn't needed, that we are picking these insurgents off in groups all the time. The media wants to make this sound like Normandy being stormed, its really 3 neighboorhoods in the city where the bad guys are clustered.
that's not to say their aren't some risks here, let's see what happens when these "patrols" start taking place.
To: victoryatallcosts
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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posted on
04/25/2004 5:35:23 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMan55
(There is no problem so great that it cannot be solved with high powered explosives.)
To: victoryatallcosts
The whole problem in facing off against this offensive is that we're tied up by the sensibilities of the American people who, after all, get to vote fairly soon.
The 1920 revolt in Iraq was supressed by the British via village-burning expiditions and other reprisals. Anyone think that could be gotten away with these days?
To: Archangelsk
SON OF A #^#$&%!^%^!
This is the kind of low intensity conflict that gets soldiers killed. And the kind of operation that will lose my vote!!!
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posted on
04/25/2004 5:35:48 PM PDT
by
Samurai_Jack
(Bush Keep This Up And Lose the Election!)
To: jayef
you expected to lose no Marines in a full blown offensive? no way.
To: threat matrix; Pukin Dog; prairiebreeze
I'm thinking this is NOT a good idea to have the president calling the shots. Why isn't the military deciding what is best?
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posted on
04/25/2004 5:36:21 PM PDT
by
Peach
To: oceanview
Like I said- they've got it right.
Frankly, we ought to simply blow the living shit out of the city as an example to others- but I doubt if that would find widespread approval.
To: threat matrix
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