Some Troops Expect All-Out Fallujah Fight

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=8&u=/ap/iraq_uneasy_truce


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But as Marines traded gun and mortar fire with rooftop snipers and fighters on the northern edge of Fallujah, some of them anticipated a bloody push to take the city of 200,000 people, a stronghold of Sunni Muslim insurgents.


"If they're trying to find a peaceful way out of this, great. But at this point, there seem to be few options other than to get innocents out and level it, wipe it clear off the map," said 1st Lt. Frank Dillbeck, scanning the city's outskirts with binoculars during a relative lull in fighting.
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Christiansen said he was unfazed by concerns that the gunmen may be using the cease-fire to regroup.

"I really don't care; they're all gonna die," he said.

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Isn't it an old adage:
If you want to know what's going on, talk to the guys on the front lines.
I guess they're expecting to destroy the city and kill everybody.

Nice. Do I REALLY have to pay my taxes this year?