Fallujah was a bloodbath -- over 280 Iraqis dead --

[DeepModem Mom]

From LBN:


Hospital Chief: Over 280 Iraqis Killed
1 hour, 28 minutes ago

By BASSEM MROUE and ABDUL-QADER SAADI, Associated Press Writers


FALLUJAH, Iraq - More than 280 Iraqis have been killed and 400 wounded this week in the U.S. Marines' siege of insurgents in this city west of Baghdad, the director of Fallujah's hospital said Thursday.

Taher Al-Issawi told The Associated Press that the toll was likely higher.

"We also know of dead and wounded in various places buried under rubble, but we cannot reach them," because of fighting, he said.

The U.S. assault on Fallujah began early Monday, when Marines surrounded the city of 200,000 people. Since then, U.S. forces have been waging heavy street battles, using warplanes and tanks against Sunni insurgents dug in heavily populated neighborhoods....


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=1&u=/ap/20040408/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[bowens43]

1. winning the hearts and minds........

[DeepModem Mom]

5. I'm afraid we will pay dearly for this carnage in Fallujah --

[MrSlayer]

2. That'll teach em! Violent Pacification!!

We'll Force You, to be Nice to Each Other!!!
KILL YOU!! BEFORE YOU KILL EACH OTHER!!!!
VIOLENT PACIFICATION!!!

--D.R.I.--

[aquart]

3. For the next ten centuries they will tell tales of the monster Americans

Who came to lie, steal, and murder.

[izzie]

6. That part of the world is still mad at the Ottoman Turks so.......

I am sure we will fit right in with them and the Brits and what ever country has matched over them. I do not think we are going to stay and set up a govt any more than the Brits or Turks did.Who are we kidding?

[dutchdemocrat]

4. I am sorry

But the rest of the civilised world is looking at America as war mongers. The Bush family has and always will be profiteers of death. Since WW1.

[Waistdeep]

7. Scale those numbers up

to a country of the size of the US, and you have more dead than were killed on 9/11.

[PsN2Wind]

8. Yes Saddam was a bad man

but he sure knew how to run a country. (sarcasm off) It would appear we've deposed Saddam and are now adopting those methods we said we had to depose him for.

[treepig]

9. can anybody say "mass graves" ?

but since god himself told mr. bush to do this, i suppose that makes it OK (unlike when that monster saddam participated in similar atrocities)