Falluja - America's hollow victory

[CHIMO]

American military commanders in Iraq now claim that their troops fully occupy the resistance stronghold of Falluja and that the operation to pacify the city has been a complete success.


In the strictest terms of a tactical scorecard, the body count of casualties would appear to support that claim. An estimated (but unverified) total of 1200 fighters were reported killed so far, while the US military admits that their own forces suffered fewer than 50 battlefield fatalities.

Rarely reported by the Pentagon is the nearly 300 severely wounded American casualties and a similar number of lightly injured. When one factors in the lack of fighters' medical facilities, their willingness to die in battle, and the recently exposed manner in which US soldiers "dispatch" wounded Iraqi prisoners the casualty figures no longer appear so heavily one-sided.

Whether or not US forces ever manage to pacify the few remaining fighters' holdouts in Falluja, their resistance has already taken on mythical proportions. Like those American frontiersmen who fought that legendary one-sided battle against superior Mexican forces at the Alamo, Falluja has now become a symbol of resistance to US occupation.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B2BC0FF0-1A7F-4AA9-826C-FBF3D5BDDF0A.htm

[Porcupine]

1. Fallujah, Alamo, Masada..Generals don't learn

Sun Tzu noted that you should always leave your enemy a path to bolt free in battle it saves wear and tear on your own troops. We have done the exact opposite.

Notice to world: When fighting Americans use your last breath to attempt to kill an American soldier. They shoot the wounded and those trying to surender. No mercy, no quarter, no honor.

Idiots; there was a reason that even the Nazi's mostly honored the Geneva conventions. It is a better deal for ALL parties.

I'm ashamed of my country. My nation is my prison.