Why Are We Asking Our Soldiers to Die in Fallujah?

A post from my favorite blog today:

FUBAR'd beyond FUBAR in Iraq (Pardon the term, but that's what it is!)

by kos
Sun Nov 14th, 2004 at 21:46:15 PST

I've meditated on this one all day:

Jackie Spinner, the Washington Post embed with the Marines in Fallujah, said in an online chat from the battleground (the mind boggles) on Thursday: "No one I've talked to believes that solving the Fallujah problem will end the violence in Iraq. But, as one Marine officer told me, not solving the Fallujah problem will not end it either." Okay. No one believes the Falluja invasion will accomplish anything.

So why did we just sacrifice 56 people the last six days, the vast majority (38) in Falluja? Why have we suffered over 400 seriously wounded, including amputees and spinal and brain injuries?

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