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U.S. Military Seeks Fallujah Cease-Fire

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[Tax Government]

Do democrats have stomach to take on Syria and Iran?

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[Clint Williams]

Just tell them -- every dead hostage brings one of these:

Then deliver.

[Happy2BMe]

Iraqi Insurgents Threaten to Kill Foreign Hostages

[Mears]

There was a ceasefire? Guess I missed that.

[EternalVigilance]

Death is welcome

Imagine that.

I find myself in agreement with an Islamo-terrorist.

Yes, his death will be most welcome.

[FairOpinion]

FoxNews just reported that Al Jazeera said that the Japanese hostages may be released within 24 hours.

Probably the US and Japan got word to the captors and told them, that for each killed hostage, they will drop a daisycutter on an Iraqi city, starting with Falluja.

[Warlord David]

I quess i got my answers.

[ricks_place]

"I swear in the name of Allah", he says, "we don't care about
death or life, we're going to heaven. Death is welcome."

It is the duty of the USA to help these Mujahideen achieve their desired final end.

[William McKinley]

Our Foreign Affairs Editor Peter Cave reports how he and his cameraman, Michael Cox, were taken by members of the Mujahideen to film the latest hostage, whose fate remains unknown.

I hope there are no more hostages taken. I really do.

But if there are going to be more hostages taken, I hope that Cave and Cox and those who go out of their way to be the jihadists' tools are the next to be taken.

[TomGuy]

A ceasefire?

Isn't how Mullah Omar escaped in Afghanistan, by a 'ceasefire' to give him time to run?

[MEG33]

Actually the Iraqi Governing council wants the cease fire..the Fallujists just agreed to talk to the council but only if the now 3 brigade strength Marines pull 3 miles out of town.(Live on Fox)

[ChadGore]

I doubt very much these peecenicks were "held" at all. This smells more like a staged PR stunt than anything.

[EDINVA]

and now they are freeing the Japanese hostages !!!

[Filibuster_60]

I'm afraid there's actually more chaos in parts of Iraq than even the liberal media can get hold of. Just today I saw a picture of an Abrams tank ablaze in Baghdad - the crew must've gotten away otherwise it would've been reported in a separate story.

For every US combat fatality there must be 10-15 attacks by the enemy, many of which leave our troops wounded. The Pentagon rarely reports attacks that don't cause at least one US death - unless the wounded are too many.

[Steel Wolf]

The 'ceasefire' is likely for domestic (Iraqi) consumption. Many people here are worried that the U.S. is so angry about the recent murder/mutilations that we're going to burn Fallujah to the ground. It's certainly how Saddam would have handled them.

If nothing else we're making a show that we're willing to let the bad guys come out with their hands up. This isn't for their benefit, but for the non-fanatical residents of Fallujah. I know it's easy to say 'Screw em all', but there are a lot of innocent people there that are afraid of the fanatics. If they can be spared, the effort should be made.

That having been said, the fanatics probably won't surrender, and this will result in us having to smash much of the town to get at them. A lot of people who just want to be left alone will wind up dead. That is unfortunate, but if the bad guys won't come quietly, they must be brought in by force. It's a pretty lousy situation, but I think we're handling it pretty well.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Hundreds of Sunni Mujahideen or Holy warriors armed with rocket propelled grenades, attacked a convoy of oil tankers taking fuel to US forces besieged in the town of Fallujah, destroying at least a dozen trucks and killing or wounding several drivers.

Well...beyond the question of whether this is accurate...if it is, we've simply got to wonder why these convoys are not more heavily guarded. These irregulars seem to have the ability to attack the soft targets in our supply train. That is, of course, the point of infiltration, but if you have a convoy that is a nice target it would seem that you'd put some choppers in the air around it and have some other air assets nearby to make life hell for the attackers. Or perhaps use phoney convoys as ambushes...or spend a little more effort sweeping the ground around your line of transit. Given that the enemy isn't trying to win a war in the conventional sense -- just trying to break our will to keep forces that far from home -- perhaps a little more effort to protect our soft targets in the hot zone wouldn't hurt.

[jellybean]

Several more kilometres down the road and tens of thousands have gathered chanting "Jihad", or "holy war" in the huge Sunni mosque Saddam built on the western edge of Baghdad

I believe this is what's called a Golden opportunity!!

[Thank You Rush]

CA has two senators we can donate to the cause and NY can throw their two in and they can install "gun control" and make everyone safe! I'd even contribute to their airfare if they would promise never to come back BUT Hillary would have to take her husband with her.