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Iraq-Jordan

Lileks On Fallujah

2004-04-29

Ah, Fallujah. Peaceful, verdant Fallujah. City of Gardens. City of Perfumed Alleys, the Mesopotamian Eden. One day a quiet happy burg of peace, the next a victim of American overbearance. From the Boston Globe, a lede by Thanassis Cambanis:

U.S. warplanes fired on Iraqi insurgents Tuesday in Fallujah in strikes that shattered a fragile cease-fire negotiated over a week ago.

Got that? We had a nice cease-fire going, and for no reason U.S. warplanes went and shattered it without provocation. I just stopped reading right there.

Posted by:Steve

#7 Matt - Bravo! Spot-on. Stop when every last piece of shit is dead. If you can't see major entry/exit wounds, shoot it again. Extra dead.

Posted by: .com 2004-04-29 10:29:34 PM

#6 or supported a leftist dictator who did - (see: Chris Dodd)

Posted by: Frank G 2004-04-29 10:26:50 PM

#5 Matt: now THAT'S fucking funny!

Of course, according to current Democratic rules of engagement, you're only allowed to talk like that if you've actually killed someone yourself.

Posted by: geezer 2004-04-29 10:25:43 PM

#4 The Marines just have a different definition of "ceasefire."

"Sarge, I think we've killed all them sumbitches."

"OK. Cease fire."

Posted by: Matt 2004-04-29 5:48:24 PM

#3 I saw a comment somewhere that this was the loudest ceasefire in history.

Posted by: Seafarious 2004-04-29 4:56:05 PM

#2 What Kofi cup meant to say is "I am an irelevant jack ass, but I love to hear myself talk".

Posted by: remote man 2004-04-29 12:46:21 PM

#1 "Violent military action by an occupying power against inhabitants of an occupied country will only make matters worse," U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan

Posted by: Jake 2004-04-29 12:19:26 PM

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