If you were an "insurgent" in Fallujah, what would you do ?

[kentuck]

Knowing that the Marines and US Army were coming thru with all their modern weapons of war and were going to search your home and person for any evidence of insurgency? Would you stand and fight against such an overwhelming force? Or would you have another strategy to fight another day?

It's probably very difficult to try and put ourselves into the shoes of an Iraqi insurgent, but if I were in that situation, I think I would hide or bury my weapons and move out of town for a while. I don't think this is the time that most will choose martyrdom. So I don't think American forces will find a lot of weapons or find a lot of people to arrest. Just my opinion.

[mmm]

1. I would join the Iraqi/US contingent.

I would be spit-polish ass-sucking number one boy.
I would travel with my new found American friends.
And I, along with all my Iraqi compatriots who had done the same,
would take my revenge slowly. Again and again.
There can be no enemy like the enemy inside you.

[Chicago Democrat]

2. Roadside Bombs....

With radio detonators. Just have little kids with radio detonators. Use old artillery shells, bury them in roads all over the place and just wait.

[AtTheEndOfTheDay]

3. Kick some ass.

[realdeal22k]

4. I would lay low and wait for the Americans to leave

Then I would go back to living a long and normal life. I would pray that the efforts to introduce democracy over fanatic rule succeeds.

Education is the problem in Iraq. Many of the people there have been brainwashed since birth to hate and hate is never good. I would work to stop the brainwashing of children.

[mmm]

5. But how would you respond to the coming massacre?

What if the US kills your innocent family?
How would you respond then?
What if the US fences you in and gives you the IDF treatment:
death by prison camp?

Were I an Iraqi today, anywhere in Iraq, I would be
organizing and planning and laying down defenses.
The firestorm comes quickly.

[laura888]

7. agreed - I would be out finding a weapon today!

no matter if I was involved in the earlier atrocities or not.

do you think the U.S. makes a differentiation? How many of those in Cuba are innocent? does anyone care?

(hmmm...perhaps I should buy a weapon in the U.S. now - since there's no telling what will happen - even here?)

[JCMach1]

8. They have been doing this for months...

it just hasn't been reported.

The Fallujah incident was just another reaction to an escalating cycle of violent occupation in the city.

[markses]

6. ROFLMAO: "Wait for the Americans to leave..."

Clue phone, ace: The Americans ain't never leaving unless they're made to leave.

Jesus, what naivety.

[ithacan]

9. "brainwashed to hate"

oh I see, kind of like Americans...

[bemildred]

10. Sounds like education is a problem for you, sir.

We are not trying to introduce democracy in Iraq,
and the people there are not brainwashed to hate from
birth any more than you are, Saddam would not have allowed
that, he didn't like the rabble getting violent any more
than the people that brainwashed you. The children in Iraq
are not brainwashed, they are brutalized, and we are
continuing the process better than Saddam could have ever
hoped to.

[NashVegas]

11. Encourage Non-Violent Defiance

IMO, the thing that's been stopping the Iraqis for the past year is their non-support of passive resistance, as was practiced by King & Ghandi.

There are 120k troops, give or take. There are how many million Iraqis?

Wanna see the US troops out in a hurry? Get big enough numbers and you could march right up and pack our soldiers' bags for them. Stick to non-violent means, and make a show of it, and there won't be a damn thing the US can do without looking like colossal bastards.

[IndianaGreen]

12. They are not "insurgents," they are freedom fighters

They don't want Saddam, but they also don't want an American jackboot on top of their heads.

[TexasMexican]

13. Kill Americans

Duh!

[shockingelk]

14. Campaign for Bush!

Kerry might be interested in something sensible like getting troops from Pakistan or Egypt to patrol hotspots.

[Aidoneus]

15. sensible?!

:eyes:

[Aidoneus]

16. find a weapon and fire it

months of sustained action eventually forced the occupying army to abandon its positions within the city. In their place, I would not allow them to be regained.

[0007]

17. 'Ya got to do what you have to do or life ain't worth living

The U.S. may be taking the eye off the ball if they believe and can find the eveildoers.