secret "insurgent" weapon wipes out 95% of Fallujah police force

[welshTerrier2]

how could such backward, third world "insurgents" ever come up with such a devious weapon? while bush is still trying to scare Americans about chemical weapons and biological weapons and even nuclear weapons and mushroom clouds, those civil warring militia guys have somehow caught the fragile Iraqi regime asleep at the wheel ...

we've invested almost 3.5 years in this madness and we've been told over and over and over and over (insert about 10,000 more "and overs" here) that "when they stand up, we can stand down" ...

not much enthusiasm to set a date certain - gotta just keep training 'em ... then, once we get to the right number of trained Iraqis loyal to the forces of democracy and freedom, they will slowly but surely take charge of their own destiny ... that's what we keep hearing over and over and (repeat above pattern here) ...

but, now the bad guys have devised a weapon so evil, so horrible, so devastating, that all bets are off ... we just lost 95% of the police force in Fallujah we had been hanging our hopes on ... 95% !!! well, what next??? should we start all over with the training of brand new recruits??

there's no way we can stop them now that they've come up with this new weapon ... it's time to leave ... not in a year ... not, kinda soon ... it's just plain time to leave ... ya know, like NOW!!!

source: http://www.registerguard.com/news/2006/08/14/a2.int.fallujah.0814.p1.php?section=nation_world

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Hundreds of newly recruited police officers in Fallujah failed to show up for work Sunday after insurgents disseminated pamphlets threatening officers who stayed on the job, according to police officials in the restive western Iraq city.

``We will kill all the policemen infidels,'' read the pamphlets, ``whether or not they quit or are still in their jobs.''

Fallujah Police Lt. Mohammed Alwan said that the force, which he estimated had increased to more than 2,000, has now shrunk to only 100. <skip>

Marine Lt. Lawton King (from the Marine propaganda department??? - why would the police chief lie?), who is stationed in Fallujah, called those figures ``inaccurate and grossly exaggerated,'' claiming that only 32 police officers had been assassinated since January and that ``substantially fewer than the exaggerated 1,400'' officers had failed to report for work.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. "Only 32 police officers had been assassinated.." Why, isn't that

grand?

[bluerum]

2. Really - demockracy is taking hold.