[muawiyah]

Why bomb Fallujah if it can be brought to fall into our hands with little or no violence?

Remember, every family in Fallujah had one or more relatives in the Iraqi army, and they know that when we promised to spare their lives if they would but come up out of their trenches, lay their weapons aside and put their hands on their head, we did so.

These guys may not like us ~ probably never will like us ~ but they have every reason in the world to respect us.

We have to play on that. After all, they know that we can kill everybody, but they've seen that we don't lie about our intentions.

[Sender]

I agree about the families in Fallujah and honoring our word to the Iraqis, but the really bad elements holed up in Fallujah are NOT Iraqis, they are Iranians, Syrians, Yemenis, Saudis, all of them there for one express reason; to keep us from peace in Fallujah.

It is these foreign mercenaries who are not afraid to become martyrs and with whom there is no negotiation. If you can think of a way to round up the bad guys while keeping families safe, please post it.