Photos of the street crowd after the Marine convoy left on Monday show thousands celebrating, not one masked gunman, no rpg's waved around, only 2 AK's being held up.
This Viet Nam/capitulation scenario is just plain crap, toughen up, quit blinking!
This was released yesterday by 1MEF:
FALLUJAH – Marines near Fallujah were approved to start the Fallujah Outreach Center Project. This will be a program for teaching local Iraqis trade skills. Job skills taught will include plumbing, electrical and construction for more than 80 young men while providing employment at the same time.
The center will be constructed north of the Fallujah Liaison Team building. This construction project will use materials and equipment from qualified Fallujah business and vendors.
Employment for Fallujans continues to climb. Since the end of offensive operations, 1,700 Iraqis are employed in the Fallujah Brigade and another 138 are employed in locally contracted projects. Projects yet to be started will boost that number by another 205.
You may disagree with hiring our former enemies, but the goal of war is to get your enemy to stop fighting. If yesterday's enemy gets used to accomplishment, earning money and supporting a family he will not be enemy enough to start fighting again.
Let's get simple, Marines don't surrender. They never walk away from a fight. This article and all like it are nothing but loose talk by ignorant cowards.
Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters (USA, Ret.) was assigned, prior to his recent retirement to the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence , where he was responsible for future warfare. 1998 Bio
Lieutenant General Claudia J. Kennedy
She was Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence 1995-97 and Deputy Chief of Staff and Lieutenant General since 1997 and Acting Chief of Staff for Intelligence in 1997. Source
Looks like Ralph worked for Claudia. Kerry's NSA gal.