Reply #42: I think your second assumption

[Tinoire]

as sickening as it is.

The US government and the military are in a fury against Fallujah. It's downright embarrassing that it hasn't been "liberated" yet.

2004 population: 257,500 compared to Baghdad's 21,722,287.

It's got 0 high-rise buildings & you can WALK across it in 30 minutes.

Its size is about 2 x 2.2 miles yet over 10,000 U.S. troops, not to mention the British, can't subdue the few "insurgents" in a city that covers 5 square miles, not even after killing over 26% of its population.



Note for the population of Fallujah which is nowhere near that ridiculous figure of 500,000 our propaganda organs put out to minimize the casualty figures: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/city.htm
http://www.world-gazetteer.com/c/c_iq.htm#pl_20