BBC: US military 'seals off Falluja'

[Nihil]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3985493.stm

The US military has sealed off the rebel-held Iraqi city of Falluja
amid speculation an assault is imminent. All roads in and out of the
mainly Sunni Muslim city have been closed by US troops, Reuters
reports.

...

(The BBC 's Paul Wood) says units are stocking up with large
quantities of artillery shells, and the pace of training has
increased.

...

US military said it had carried out five air strikes within seven
hours on Friday, destroying a command post, arms caches and rebel
positions, Reuters reports.

...

Nihil

[DBoon]

1. Like this?

[saigon68]

2. Fallujagrad

Fallujagrad

The “Real Iraqi Resistance” has already left Fallujagrad..

The only ones remaining are a few die hards that want to kill as many amerikans as possible
before they die. They have set thousands of mines and booby traps.

The war in Iraq-Nam is only starting.

It will be the WARSAW GHETTO part 2

As General Jurgen Stroop of the Marines levels the city. And exterminates the remaining
inhabitants





Pictured here are German sappers assigned to blow up the bunkers where the Jews were hiding,
together with Jews that had been removed from one of the bunkers; apparently on May 8, 1943

[Barrett808]

3. Or it could be Grozny...or Hama...

Some reports over the last year had as much as 1/3 of the city destroyed already. How many "precision strikes" does it take to flatten a whole city?

[saigon68]

9. "An Arc Light or 2 would solve the problem," Rumdumb

Arc Light bombing mission impacting.
USAF photo courtesy of the U. S. Air Force Museum

[Barrett808]

10. Precisely. n/t

[catmandu57]

20. How long until that's what they do?

When the marines are getting the snot kicked out of them, it'd be pretty tempting to call in those big boys, hell maybe one of those tacticul nukes would make them sit up and take notice.

God our national soul has to be black and smelling.

[Sin]

13. Id say

It will be more like the fire bombing of Dirsth ( forgive the spelling )

[Barrett808]

14. Not familiar with that -- I'd be interested in details n/t

[daleo]

17. I presume he means Dresden, Germany

Fire bombed by the allies late in the war. Probably 100,000 civilians killed, city utterly cooked. Giant firestorm created. Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five uses this event to frame the book.

[Barrett808]

23. Ah -- suspected that's what he meant.

I was just thinking of Cat's Cradle this morning.

[Sin]

25. Thanks :)

yea thats what i was trying to get across. was in a hurry to get out the door Didn't remember the correct spelling and or pronunciation.
I guess this quote would go with the situation.
Tacitus attributes this quote to Calgacus king of the Caledonia's In AD 80 when he was mustering his troops before his defeat by the Romans.

"Brigands of the world, they have exhausted the land by their indiscriminate plunder, and now they ransack the sea. The wealth of an enemy excites their cupidity, his poverty their lust for power. East and West have failed to glut their maw. They are unique in being as violently tempted to attack the poor as the wealthy. Robbery, butchery and rapine they call Empire; and when they have created a desert they call it peace."

[Kitsune]

4. Let the genocide begin.... *nt*

[xchrom]

5. ok -- who thinks most of the rebels have left already?

damn -- the city is flattened already -- dead brits and americans are showing up in other parts of the country.
there isn't anything to ''win'' in fallujah or the rest of iraq for that matter.

[northernsoul]

7. and any who stayed have had months to booby-trap...

dig in, cache weapons, develope communications infrastrucures, etc.

My guess is that a significant number of the Iraqi troops allegedly on our side are going to desert at first opportunity and maybe even turn on the U.S. troops.

I hope I'm wrong, but I'm having a hard time believing this won't be a disaster

[daleo]

6. Bush thinks he has a mandate now, and the election proves God is with him

I doubt whether his handlers even let him in on the vote fraud. He is capable of anything now.

[DBoon]

8. The last world leader this lunatic

spoke German, and committed suicide in a bunker.

[clydefrand]

11. Hey, do you think one who can barely speak English

and says he speaks Spanish can find a bunker? Let's build him one.

[spinbaby]

15. My mother remembers the Nazis

She was a teenager in Germany during the 30s. She says this administration reminds her very much of the Nazis--all patriotism, religion, and threats from "enemies."

[Say_What]

19. Hitler-Bush Similarities--a refresher of what we already know

<clips>

...Both men used their diplomats to make a mockery of international legal institutions.

...Bush's Secretary of State, Colin Powell, helped Bush to emasculate the United Nations.

...Both men had their country's military engage in aggressive war in defiance of international law.

...However during his first four years of power Hitler did not start a war. He waited until he could end unemployment and bring Germany to a level of prosperity that could support war. It was during his next four years that he started a war and began the mass murder of people he considered the enemies of Germany.

Both men prematurely declared victory early in their war of conquest.



http://www.mninter.net/~hedwards/bush/hitler-bush.htm

[fryguy]

12. does haliburton already have the contract to rebuild the city?

guess this is the * administration's urban renewal plan - preparations are underway to implement it in the US as well: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/05/nyregion/05strafe.html?hp&ex=1099717200&en=532b0e2b70d21ff5&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[xxqqqzme]

16. the whorporate media is

giddy over reporting on the impending mass murder. They R barely able 2 restrain their glee.

how lucky 4 us the mavens of moralty R in charge!

[jjanpundt]

18. This is too sickening...

I was starting to feel resigned about the election loss and trying to suck it up. Now I'm practically beside myself. This military action is beyond dismaying. We're committing genocide. Has everyone lost their minds? Aren't there any U.S. military officers able to see that this is wrong, wrong, wrong? God, the Iraqis did nothing to us.

Where's the international community's outrage? They should be screaming out against this illegal war. They should be calling for the shrubistas heads on pikes. What a disaster this will be.

I think I want the world to stop, so I can get off.

[LongTomH]

21. The people of Fallujah are pleading with the U.N. to help them!

http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_13236.shtml

I would be surprised if there isn't outrage in Europe. I'm sure there is in the Middle East!

[jjanpundt]

22. If it were any other country, but the U.S

there would be a massive outcry. Who is going to stop this insanity? Maybe the EU should start petitioning the UN to sanction our asses for the whole illegal war.

[teryang]

24. Another game of whackamole

Where are the other 250,000 residents? Do you think they're pissed?