Fallujah is like Vietnam says US commander

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1-1068006,00.html

US Marines met ferocious resistance in the western Iraqi town of Fallujah today as they pressed a four-day offensive against Sunni Muslim insurgents, prompting their commander to make comparisons with the Vietnam war. snip

After more than three days of ferocious fighting, the Marines had managed to move just a little over a mile through an industrial zone, on the eastern edge of the town, which they had thought was largely abandoned.

By this afternoon, the Marines had stopped their advance to wait for reinforcement from a third battalion, officers said.

"Right now we’re just holding fast," said First Lieutenant Luke Pernotto, of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines."We tried to move a little bit, but we don’t have enough people to push the insurgents back."

"Reinforcements will help us a lot. They shoot at us and we don’t have enough people to go seal off where they’re going back to."

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[grytpype]

1. Wow, I guess this is the block-to-block fighting...

... that we skipped last year on the drive to Bagdhad. Oh, well.

[Just Me]

2. He is "off task" and will be disciplined!!!

He was not "authorized" to make that statement by our war/corporatist propaganda machine. Shame on him!!!

<sarcasm off>

[skooooo]

3. When do they sleep??

God, I mean how could you have enough stamina to stay alive in a situation like that even if you're not shot? Sorry if that's morbid, but I can't help thinking about things like that.

[David Zephyr]

4. Memo to John McCain: It Is Almost Like Vietnam....Just Worse.

By the way, McCain, who recently criticized Ted Kennedy for comparing the quagmire in Iraq with the quagmire in Vietnam, must have forgotten that he also recently had made the comparison.

[jmcgowanjm]

6. A Call for an Exit Door from Iraq by Sen. Robert Byrd

Seriously censored by USmedia.

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/byrd.php?articleid=2272

[bpilgrim]

5. This is HIGH TREASON

committing such a WEAK force to such a HERCULEAN task and then THROUGHLY missmanaging the 'PEACE' as to FURTHER put EVERYONE at MORTAL RISK for a war that EVERYONE knows is ILLEGAL! :argh:

we need MIKE MALLOY and PETER WERBE on DAILY NOW more than EVER :bounce:
fortunately we still got air america... just hope realplayer feels like working ;->

peace

[jmcgowanjm]

7. Thousands forced USroadblock to Fallujah

The militia threatened to up the ante with an
ultimatum Thursday to occupation forces to quit the
holy city of Karbala where a major religious celebration
was scheduled this weekend.

http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2004-04/08/article04.shtml

"We send you this letter from your brothers in al Anbar
governate and the city of Fallujah, to say that we are
with you under the banner of 'God is Greatest' and
the mantle of Islam." So began a letter read over
loudspeakers Monday outside al-Sadr's headquarters.


"If I talk about it, it won't be a surprise," the shopkeeper
added. "And you won't see the beauty of it."

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001897432_muslims07.html



A million pilgrims will be in Karbala/Najaf, all
ready to follow Sistani/ Al Sadr.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

8. I wonder what Eric Shinseki is up to these days.

Perhaps the golfing is nice wherever he is.

[Moderator]

9. locking

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