It was obvious back when I wrote Post #82, and it's no surprise that all that I predicted (i.e. that Fallujah would soon have a home grown Iraqi hero, grow calm, and lead into the January elections) is coming to pass. Anyone who predicted that our Fallujah solution would end badly must surely be rethinking whatever facts and logic they used in forming such disproven thoughts, too.
Here is one of several articles quoting Marines who believe that the "Fallujah solution [has}end[ed]badly..." I think those who reflexively supported their President or just the Corps should now come out and restate their positon on the Fallujah deal. At the time of the deal, I posted that the violence would diminish but that no murderers of our civilians or ringleaders of the insurgents would be brought to justice and that the whole bug out resembled Tora Bora. One might justify the Fallujah deal on domestic political terms but all pretenses of a military strategy suceeding should be recanted.