[cake_crumb]

"U.N. senior adviser Lakhdar Brahimi warned Iraq's U.S.-led administration that an armed confrontation with insurgents in Falluja would lead to major bloodshed and long-lasting consequences."

UN standard line.

[TexKat]

Salvadoran and U.S. Army (2nd R) soldiers guarding a military base talk to approaching human shields Meg Lumshaine and Mario Galvan (R) both from California, in Iraq's Holy city of Najaf April 28, 2004. Commanders near Najaf said that an air assault two days ago appeared to have demoralized guerrillas in the city and was part of a strategy to persuade their wanted religious leader, radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr, to give himself up. REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz

A scull-and-bones flag flies on a US military Humvee at entrance of the restive city of Fallujah. US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld defended ongoing efforts to negotiate a solution to the armed standoffs in the Iraqi towns of Fallujah and Najaf as 'worth the try.'(AFP/Patrick Baz)

[Dilbert56]

"U.N. senior adviser Lakhdar Brahimi warned Iraq's U.S.-led administration that an armed confrontation with insurgents in Falluja would lead to major bloodshed and long-lasting consequences."

Certainly hope so. The blood shed will be mostly Al Qaeda's. The long-lasting consequence is that these scum will know that, if they attack US troops, they will die. The city where it happens will be surrounded and the noose will tighten. Then they will die. Now, any more volunteers for our jihad?

[Robert_Paulson2]

"... an armed confrontation with insurgents in Falluja would lead to major bloodshed and long-lasting consequences."

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...we certainly hope so.

[WOSG]

"U.N. senior adviser Lakhdar Brahimi warned Iraq's U.S.-led administration that an armed confrontation with insurgents in Falluja would lead to major bloodshed and long-lasting consequences."

Let us parse that:

major bloodshed = many terrorists killed.

long-lasting consequences = could break the back of the insurgency

"WOSG warned Iraq's U.S.-led administration that an armed confrontation with insurgents in Falluja would lead to many terrorists killed and could break the back of the insurgency."