It’s morning in Fallujah as Marines devastate Enemy terrorists.
US Marines and Iraqi soldiers have “broken” the Enemy terror stronghold of Fallujah, Lt Gen John Sattler says. (*) Operation Dawn is a success.
The efforts of American fighting men and women in the Fallujah engagment has been incredible, valorous, and distinctive. Fallujah is nearly free of the terrorist menace.
Our troops are ahead of schedule. They have devastated the Enemy even as they have strained to protect innocent lives. They have taken casualties when they didn’t have to, just to show respect for mosques and civilians.
Now we must send in the rebuilding crews. The example of Fallujah must serve both as a warning to those who would do harm, and as an incentive to those who would choose freedom.
Convincing the Sunnis they are better off with the new government is absolutely key.
Finally, let’s not forget the Americans killed in Fallujah several months ago, dragged through the streets, and hanged from a bridge. The Marines have now left a handwritten message on the bridge. (†)
This is for the Americans of Blackwater that were murdered here in 2004. Semper Fidelis.
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P.S. F*** you.
God bless the US Marines.
November 23rd, 2004 at 01:36
God bless these troops and the wonderful job they do everyday.And thank-you for a well written blog.
January 12th, 2005 at 03:53
“I watched them roll over wounded people in the street with tanks,” he said. “This happened so many times.”
Abdul Razaq Ismail who escaped from Fallujah two weeks back said soldiers had used tanks to pull bodies to the soccer stadium to be buried. “I saw dead bodies on the ground and nobody could bury them because of the American snipers,” he said. “The Americans were dropping some of the bodies into the Euphrates near Fallujah.”
Abu Hammad said he saw people attempt to swim across the Euphrates to escape the siege. “The Americans shot them with rifles from the shore,” he said. “Even if some of them were holding a white flag or white clothes over their heads to show they are not fighters, they were all shot..”
Hammad said he had seen elderly women carrying white flags shot by U.S. soldiers. “Even the wounded people were killed. The Americans made announcements for people to come to one mosque if they wanted to leave Fallujah, and even the people who went there carrying white flags were killed.”
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m7747
January 12th, 2005 at 10:28
Sorry, but it doesn’t compare to 9/11 and I don’t believe it anyway.