Why America Has Waged a Losing Battle on Fallouja

Los Angeles Times ^ | October 24, 2004 | Alissa J. Rubin and Doyle McManus

[John Jorsett]

FALLOUJA, Iraq — As soon as the women of Fallouja learned that four Americans had been killed, their bodies mutilated, burned and strung up from a bridge, they knew a terrible battle was coming.

They filled their bathtubs and buckets with water. They bought sacks of rice and lentils. They considered that they might soon die.

"When we heard the news," said Turkiya Abid, 62, a mother of 15, "we began to say the Shahada," the Muslim profession of faith.

There is no god but God, and Muhammad is the messenger of God.

In Washington, the reaction to the March 31 killings was exactly what the women of Fallouja had expected: anger. Those inside George W. Bush's White House believed that the atrocity demanded a forceful response, that the United States could not sit still when its citizens were murdered.

[shankbear]

bomb them til they are fried

[KantianBurke]

"Those inside George W. Bush's White House believed that the atrocity demanded a forceful response"

So why was one not forthcoming?

[cripplecreek]

The Black Watch is moving to Baghdad to take the place of our guys who are going to help drain the Fallujah swamp.

[DoctorMichael]

........Why America Has Waged a Losing Battle on Fallouja........

The link goes to a registration page. I'm not a registered user of the LA SLimes. The least you could have done was exerpt the most important paragraph in the article..........The reason WHY.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

So why was one not forthcoming?

The touchy-feely crowd won the day.

The Iraqi insurgents are going to get clobbered

BIG TIME

after Nov. 2, whoever wins the election.

[DSBull]

Since I can't get the article because I don't want to be a member, I will guess the reason for this is to show the poor civilians being hurt by the mean American's taking unbalanced responses to our people being killed and brutalized..Am I right?


If so, let me say this..Who the hell cares what these people think and another thing, what should we do, in the eyes of the LA Rags,,they kill four we kill four..Sh@*..at that rate we will never leave, especially given the fact that these people have 14 kids a household it appears...Frag em all and sort it out later.

[jim macomber]

"So why was one not forthcoming?"

Because we have an opposition dedicated to itself and not the interests of the country or individual Americans and which will use any even inevitable difficulty or reversal to their advantage, regardless of its effects.

[BenLurkin]

If the L.A. Times says we are losing then we are probably winning.

[KantianBurke]

Sorry. The Rats don't manage our forces in Iraq. Bush does. Try again.

[the invisib1e hand]

Losing?

I'm sorry, but I didn't hear the fat lady sing.

[anonymoussierra]

"There is no god but God, and Muhammad is the messenger of God." I write this God Father Son Holy Spirit Amen that is good good God!

[gaspar]

I can't believe that the simpering McManus is within a thousand miles of Falluja. I can't imgagine that he would be in Iraq without orders from his bosses. Perhaps the paper was hoping for its own internal October surprise.

[John Jorsett]

I'm not a registered user of the LA SLimes. The least you could have done was exerpt the most important paragraph in the article..........The reason WHY.

The WHY goes on for 12 pages. Go to BugMeNot to get yourself a fake user id and password that will work.

[jim macomber]

"Sorry. The Rats don't manage our forces in Iraq. Bush does. Try again."

Sorry. I'll stick with my first try. The obvious implication of which is that our forces were held back for reasons more PC than strategic or tactical.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

The LA Times also said Arnold was losing the governor's race.

[Mister Baredog]

The least you could have done was exerpt the most important paragraph in the article..........The reason WHY.

The reason why is the LA Slimes is a 527 for sKerry.

[defenderSD]

This is just more heavily biased liberal propaganda from the LA Times. The only use for that paper is to line bird cages.

[DSBull]

But I really don't want to hear anything the LA Grimes has to say..about anything at really anytime, since the collective intelligence of the editorial staff would scarcely reach the level of that of my cat.

[MNJohnnie]

Hmmm the LA Lies must not be paying attention. The battle is still going and at last report "the Jihadis were preparing to defend the last ditch"

Funny how the American media do NOT realize Time is ON OUR side. Fallugha is a tar baby the Terrorists have hugged to their breast and it is killing them. Rather then having to go on casualty intensive seek and destroy missions, we are killing Terrorists in the dozens every day in Fallugha. We have the terrorist localized and contained Meanwhile, the rest of Iraq is moving to stability and self defense.