[DiscoStu1979]

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...

This pretty much says that we've decided to place greater importance on the lives of Iraqis than on the lives of our Marines. I can't fathom how the President can make this decision given that it is likely to lead to the deaths of many more Marines than would be killed from an all-out attack which is pre-ceded by a massive arial bombardment of Falujah.

This is akin to arguing it would have been better to invade Japan instead of nuking it so as not to upset the local population.

[Kay Soze]

your dead meat man.

We don't cotton to new folks around these parts!

[Southack]

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