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posted by admin
on Thursday December 02, @09:33PM
from the stalingrad dept.
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1203/p06s02-woiq.html
In Fallujah, US forces are going through 50,000 houses one by one. But Iraqi insurgents are coming back.
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Iraqi
civilians are not expected to be permitted to begin returning to the
badly damaged city until mid-December, and extensive damage to
virtually every house and building across Fallujah means that detailed
US and Iraqi government plans for rebuilding will take months, at
least, to realize.
But the original problem persists: US forces
sweep through one neighborhood after another, only to find insurgents
popping up in "cleared" areas.
The battle Monday killed one
marine and wounded three others - a high cost against three insurgents,
who had moved into a house 50 feet across the street from a newly
established marine position at a Fallujah fire station. That house and
several others nearby had been cleared just two days earlier.
more...
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btw: about that image... it's not a photoshop but marketing 'GENIOUS' ;->
Yeah, it's tempting to just write this monstrosity off to typically
dismal Nova Scotian taste in backdrops, but Dan Fromkin straightens us
out: "Bush, before his speech in Halifax, sitting next to a White-House
designed backdrop featuring President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British
Prime Minister Winston Churchill." Yes, ignore the Dantean implications
of the color scheme, concentrate instead on how it looks like he's
sitting with people who actually won a war. Not so much "Mission
Accomplished" as "In Close Proximity to a Mission Accomplished."
Bush's Charm Offensive [WP]
Source...
http://www.wonkette.com
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