So the militants are just sitting there being pounded by the US in

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Fallujah. The same people who have no artillery to respond with are just waiting to be attacked by tanks and not leaving the city in droves to fight another day. These same people who let the US say they have control of an area while they blow the shit out everything in sight with car bombs and disappear into the night are just sitting there waiting to get wiped out.

Come on news media this is going to be a joke of win that will disappear with the real battle starting after we raise the flag in Fallujah and start hiding in walled off compounds in Fallujah the same way we do in Baghdad. The real story isn't our build up its what further damage we are doing to our efforts.

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1. I will be surprised if there is much armed resistance when we enter

Fallujah. I also will be surprised if the number of Iraqis who are not fighting but are killed anyway is small. It would not surprise me if what happens in Fallujah is compared in the future to the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon in 1982. I think we are about to provide the Iraqi insurgency and Islamic fundamentalists with their greatest propaganda and recruiting tools to date.