Reply #4: An excellent and chilling article

[theHandpuppet]

I hope everyone will take the time to read the piece in its entirety.

As an aside, my partner and I caught just a few moments of a Fallujah report on CNN last night (or was it MSNBC?) in which an Aussie embed was extolling the valor of American troops in Fallujah with such breathless, over-the-top, jingoistic excitement that we had to turn off the TV. It was thoroughly chilling -- shots of our troops whooping and hollering as heavy artillery blasted away the whole sides of buildings while the Aussie "journalist" provided a voiceover worthy of a July 4th picnic in Crawford. It was as if the people of Fallujah were little more than cockroaches to be exterminated in some hyper-surreal video game. I could only wonder, though my mind rebelled against it, what valor it must take for those women and children huddling in the deepest corners of their homes, those civilians in Fallujah who could and will be killed in the next wave of cluster bombs, to psychologically survive under such a nightmarish assault.

May God forgive us.