[Eurotwit]

What?

[elfman2]

"But Latif said there was no need for them to stay because Falluja was peaceful. "I am confident they will leave in a few days," he said "

So am I.

Brahimi, the Governing Council and Bremer don’t want more bloodshed. It would be much more difficult to justify restarting an offensive on a quiet city than finish the last one.

I’m confident that 1st Mar. Div. General Mattis will once again have to eat his words, mismanaged by an administration will a pattern of compromising.

[Arrowhead1952]

"I want the American soldier to return to his camp.

Yeah, we'll do that and get about 50 miles away.

What I want more is that he returns to the United States," General Muhammad Latif told Reuters in an interview.

We'll do that right after we have turned the entire city into a glass parking lot with a few nukes.

[Congressman Billybob]

Maybe this is just a feint. While most of the attention was on Fallujah, the Marines have very quietly taken back the center of Najif. It looks like any Iraqi who's put in a "position of authority" in Fallujah is a card-carrying clown.

Okay, when the time comes, the Marines will kick ass and take names. Generals, not politicians, ought to decide when the time has come.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "Honesty Problems with Kerry and Gorelick: Pin the Truth on the Democrat."

[Pietro]

"There are no insurgents. There are kind people," said Latif,

yeah. This guy's right on top of things. The insurrgents/terrorists/baathists are dematerialized.

[jpsb]

Told you so. We're screwed.

[bushfamfan]

Fallujah is picking up where it left off. Funny how we send Marines into Fallujah to die going after the bad guys who inhabit the city yet then the politicians/Generals tell them to cease firing because we are negotiating with the terrorists! But the terrorists don't follow the 'agreement' and are still firing and attempting to kill our troops. They are supposed to hand over the weapons and do give us rusty, useless weapons and the General says how this isn't amusing and they've got DAYS not WEEKS, yet he not only gives them weeks, but they don't have to give up a thing and we draw back when we had the thugs cornered and install a Baathist General to control things-the same reliable man whom made these statements!! Appalling. Despicable.

[JSteff]

We went about the fighting in Falluja in the wrong way with the wrong forces. What we could have done was just tell RIAA that intel sources had determined that Falluja was the center of massive music downloading and DVD copying.

RIAA is ruthless and relentless.

[swarthyguy]

He is right about the jihadis. They prolly left for Baghdad during one of the ceasefires.

Falluja is now liberated sovereign Iraki territory where they fly the old Iraki flag.

It's calm, stable and according to Gen Latif, safer than Baghdad, especially for women and children. No crime, no terror.

That's what we want. So, I don't know what we have to whine about.

We stated attacking Falluja. And then we stopped to let Irakis do it.

And this General has. Give him a cigar.

[PISANO]

For a man who has just been given a Command and been freed from the rule of Saddam, he sure is an ungrateful schmuck. In less than a week after assuming the Brigade he is already giving orders to US telling the MARINES to leave and for the US to get out of his country. Either most Iraqis don't deserve the freedom we have given them or there is NO WAY our CULTURES can ever mix because we see things totally different.

Check that..........TWO different cultures reside in that same environment here. Conservatives (The THINKERS) and Leftists (The FEELERS)

[VRWC_minion]

Sounds like classic good guy/bad guy routine.

It occured to me that a major reason for pulling back is we likely ran out of targets. My guess is if this routine works we win, if not we get new intelligence on targets and we win.