Reply #92: Here's something else. [View All]

[WVhill]

the Jews knew by that time they were earmarked for death. THAT IS A MOTIVATOR. If you're going to die anyway.... Most Fallujah residents probably just want to go back to and expect a normal life after this gets sorted out. "The people in al-Fallujah haven't been systematically starved for about 4 years or so" and have no reason to think they will be. Women and children weren't allowed to leave the ghetto unless it was in vehicle headed for a concentration camp. Not so in Fallujah.

The Germans didn't have night vision scopes, nor helicopter gunships, nor laser targeted missiles, nor body armour, nor snipers with .50 cal rifles that can reach out and part someone's hair well beyond the range of the insurgents' weaponry. Nor did they have the non-lethal devices capable of stopping insurgents that are now being deployed to Iraq. There is no valid comparison between Fallujah and the Warsaw Ghetto. To even compare the genocide of WW II to the pacification of Iraq and the rebuilding of its infrastructure belittles the Hollocaust.

FWIW, during the Tet offensive, 20,000 South Vietnamese troops died compared to the 50,000 Viet Cong that were killed. The insurgents are nowhere near 50,000. No comparison there either.