Fallujah predicted to be the biggest urban battle since Hue, TET OFFENSIVE

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We did not really have the urban streetfighting when we invaded Iraq. It's going to be the biggest urban warfare since Hue and the TET Offensive of 1968! (on CNN)

We are going to kill everything and utterly destroy Fallujah from this report. We are really going to let them have it for mutilating those 4 Americans:

US officer threatens to turn Fallujah into “a killing field”

By James Conachy
23 April 2004

An unnamed senior American officer told yesterday’s New York Times that the US forces besieging the predominantly Sunni Muslim Iraqi city of Fallujah could turn it into “a killing field in a couple of days”. The statement, filled with murderous intent, is only one of the more chilling indications that the Bush administration has ordered the military to drown the city of 300,000 in blood and make it an example of what will happen in other areas of Iraq if the three-week uprising against the US occupation continues.

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The ceasefire itself has been an utter travesty. Its main purpose from the standpoint of the US military was not to negotiate a “peaceful solution,” but to kill as many defenders as possible while at the same time boosting the US forces around the city.

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The Wall Street Journal editorial of April 20 is a case in point. Declaring Fallujah had to be “cleared out as a terrorist sanctuary” and condemning the ceasefire, it warned the White House: “The fastest way for Mr. Bush to lose support at home would be if Americans see soldiers restrained from doing what it takes to win by UN statements or political control. That’s when his own base begins to walk.”

A murderous logic is at work in Iraq. Having staked so much on the conquest of the oil-rich and geo-politically strategic country, as part of a broader agenda of global domination, US imperialism is signalling it cannot and will not retreat. The entire discussion within the political establishment, from both Republican and Democratic quarters, revolves around sending more troops, allocating more finances to the war and crushing the Iraqi uprising.


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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/apr2004/iraq-a23.shtml

This will shore up Bush's base but horrify the swing. It's a real gamble for Bush, but the only one his diminutive brain can come up with. There will be a real body-count of Americans from such close fighting.

Bush blew it by never focusing aid and security on Fallujah and Ramadi. This was very predictable. He only knows how to spell one word. O-I-L.