Remember Fallujah

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Re: Remember Fallujah

@Ohioguy

Lajawabby,

Get off you high horse. Romanticizing and Victimizing the people of Fallujah is not a winner to Western folk. There are things that are wrong. Abu Graib was wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. But you are talking about Urban Warfare. It is ugly, it is dirty and it is nasty. We did not want to go blow up Fallujah.

You talk about the place like innocent angels ran the town. These were Saddams’ henchmen, his enforcers, the seat of his power. If you want to make Fallujah into some Muslim urban myth, go right ahead, but let’s not fool anybody that the town was filled with angels and choirboys. That was the most well announced offensive in the history of modern warfare. If you did not evacuate you family, even if you chose to stay and fight, then you are responsible for your family and the consequences. Using you family as human shields? That may suit your value system, but not mine.** How normal is it to have charred bodies swinging from bridges in your town**?

well said,

Re Contractors: BWSC flew in over 1500 of its own contractors (most of them requested the posting) and they were the first to enter the city.