Reply #16: I had a different thought on this [View All]

[IkeWarnedUs]

When I saw all the "refugees" leaving Fallujah it occured to me that the US may say everyone still in Fallujah is an "insurgent" and do some shock and awe bombing.

I agree that the US called for the ceasefire because things were going so badly for the US and they needed time to regroup. I see massive bombing in Fallujah as a possible outcome of the regrouping.

I'm not sure if I can explain the rest of my reason for believing this without sounding like I don't respect our troops. I do, I absolutely do. But the strength of our military is the power and number of our weapons. We are a super power because we have bigger, more powerful bombs and more of them than anyone else. When it comes to actual man to man combat, I believe we are at a disadvantage, except that our soldiers may have better weapons there as well.

What kind of training have the troops in Iraq received? Look at all of the National Guard and Reserve troops deployed in Iraq. What kind of training did these lawyers, mechanics, accountants and waitresses get? We know that their equipment and support has been insufficient. The best trained US fighters such as Navy SEALS and Marine Recon force are leaving the US military for companies like Blackwater.

This isn't meant as a critisism of our soldiers but of the system.

That's why watching people flee Fallujah made me think the US is about to go with their strength - bomb the shit out of Fallujah now that the only people left are, by definition, insurgents.