Haunting Picture from NY Times re: Falluja

[Emboldened Chimp]

U.S. forces have begun "a methodical effort" in Falluja to capture the people responsible for killing four U.S. contractors last week.

[htuttle]

1. It looks like a desolation....

...But they call it 'peace'.

[Trajan]

4. That is a paraphrase of a famous quote ....

Hmmmm .. I'll look it up ...

[Trajan]

7. Tacitus ...

"The Romans brought devastation, but they called it peace. "
- Tacitus

[rocktivity]

2. It's methodical, all right

Kill them all and let Allah sort them out.

:headbang:
rocknation

[arcane1]

3. still called contractors, I see

giving us the image of white 55-year old men in jeans and steel-toed boots, pager on their belts, hard hat, overseeing 'reconstruction'

:eyes:

[Avalux]

8. hired mercenaries -

sorry - that's not politically correct, is it?? It's estimated there are 10-20K of them in Iraq, although the Pentagon doesn't know for sure. Who they answer to is unclear as are their rules of engagement.

[arcane1]

9. maybe not PC, but true nonetheless

though it is a bitter taste for many

[Loonman]

5. I will show you fear...

...in a handful of dust.

[KC]

10. A

quote from TS Eliot

KC

[JCMach1]

6. BS it's LIDICE style retribution....

NYT continues to whore for shrub