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so much for the promise of:
sudden and irresistable, overwhelming force in fallujah... for the burning murder and mutilation of american civilians there. so much for the immediacy of the promised "overwhelming" force.

We all saw this coming when the contractors called for help, and the military, just a mile or so away... did nothing.

nothing.
and it went on for days if not weeks.

and now it's called a truce.
how appropriate.

THose celebrating the deaths should have been mowed down by choppers. Bad message to send : you dance on the burnt corpses of Americans and nothing happens.

Just like in Baghdad yesterday...Dancing on American Humvees and corpses should be an automatic death sentence.

They'll stop if we do that. Not the attacks but the celebrations.

And elevating this standoff to the level of the WH sends the absolutley wrong msg. Whether true or not, the perception is out there and is damning to our side.

When tactics are driven by the WH, and we are going to use Marines on footpatrol in Falluja as bait......

And why did we let civilians back into Falluja. Leaflet the town, tell everyone to get out and start establishing credibility in the Arab mind.