U.S. military and U.S. media has been lying to us again - Fallujah

[NNN0LHI]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=716&e=2&u=/ap/20041223/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

3 U.S. Marines Killed in Fallujah Battle

FALLUJAH, Iraq - U.S. Marines battled insurgents in Fallujah on Thursday, with warplanes dropping bombs and tanks shelling suspected guerrilla positions in the heaviest fighting in weeks, erupting as the first residents returned to the devastated city. At least three Marines were killed in the area, the military said.

The fighting was the heaviest in Fallujah since Dec. 10, when seven Marines, three Iraqi troops and about 50 insurgents were killed. The former insurgent stronghold has seen sporadic violence, including artillery and small-arms fire, since the United States captured it in a weeklong offensive last month.


F-18 fighter-bombers were seen striking at targets in the city's outskirts. Tank and artillery fire was also heard.


U.S. officials said Marines and insurgents were killed in the Fallujah fighting. A military spokeswoman said three Marines were killed in action Thursday in Anbar province, which surrounds Fallujah.


American commanders have hailed the November offensive to retake Fallujah as a major tactical victory. But pockets of insurgents remain in the city — and violence elsewhere in Iraq (news - web sites) has only escalated since the capture of Fallujah, after many guerrillas apparently slipped out of Fallujah to operate in central and northern Iraq.

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[donco6]

1. Weren't there "pockets of insurgents" there before?

So what did we really accomplish? Besides devestating the city and scattering people to the four winds.

Idiots.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Marines and insurgents were killed

Gee, we didn't get the usual 3 Marines and 2,000 insurgents shit.
That back isn't breaking very easily is it? Who's back is going to go first, Theirs or Myers?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Anybody remember the "5 O'Clock Follies" from Vietnam?

The ones that the military ran that inevitably proclaimed victories? You know, 8000 VC killed and one GI medivaced for hangnail? Someone took the time to add up all the dead "enemy" they announced and discovered that we had destroyed the VC and the entire North Vietnamese Army twice over.

Trust the military to tell the truth? About as much as I trust Boobya to be "compassionate".

[knowbody0]

4. i remember

25,000,000 "insurgents" to go. yeah, we're #1