Posted on 11/08/2004 8:39:55 AM PST by epluribus_2
NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq - More than 4,000 U.S. Marines and Army troops punched their way into northeastern Fallujah on Monday, kicking off a massive assault dubbed Operation Phantom Fury that seeks to put an end to half a year of insurgent control of the Sunni Muslim city.
The prelude to the assault on the Askari neighborhood was a crushing air and artillery bombardment of the city that rose to a crescendo by Monday evening, with U.S. strike jets dropping bombs around the clock and big guns pounding the city every few minutes with high-explosive shells.
Meanwhile, insurgents in Baghdad and nearby Ramadi tried to keep up the pressure on the coalition forces with new attacks, including one on a Catholic church in the capital.
Earlier Monday U.S. troops had fought their way into the city's western outskirts, seizing two bridges over the Euphrates River and helping Iraqi soldiers take the city's main hospital in the first stage of a major assault on the insurgent stronghold.
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Rummy: No stopping - All the way til the job is done. ABSOLUTELY.
YES!
Find excerpts of Annan cautioned that, The threat or actual use of force not only risks deepening the sense of alienation of certain communities, but would also reinforce perceptions among the Iraqi population of a continued military occupation… This is the moment for redoubling efforts to break the cycle of violence and open a new chapter of inclusiveness and national reconciliation...
Act 4, scene 3
That is my thought also. Grab that camera & give him/her a weapon & have them "shoot them again"
Your break is over. LOL
Question: Have you captured Zarqawi, any other terrorists yet?
No debate about whether or not it will be finished.
That's a good way to lose your foot, or your b**ls (assuming he still has his, of course).
Yes, I know that...but I pray Dubya doesn't accept it
Yes, it has begun. Letterman said that Hillary was in Ohio duckhunting. :o)
Some in the media understand that lives will be lost and things will be broken. There is just a certain mindset in this country that believes without a doubt that war has a set beginning and a set end, be it days, or a week.
Yeah, shouldn't they be laid out on the ground? How is the press (AP) getting these pics out, and I didn't know Al Jazeera had a pool photographer. Hmmm....wonder if his camera looks like a shoulder missle launcher??
Lemme at 'em. I can take 'em.
Next questions: 100,000 civilians still in city (est) fear of lots of civilian casualities?
Dropping a bomb of his own in his shorts.
OH MY! Fox just broke for BREAKING NEWS ABOUT SCOTT PETERSON!!!!!!!!
There are no innocents over there...
Rummy indicates the decision has been made by all parties to start and to FINISH in Fallujah when asked if Allawi could stop it at any point..skillfully put.(I love Rummy at a presser!)
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