Buy a dictionary. Then look up this word: Insurgency. Perhaps you'll figure this out. I'm pretty sure that the formerly unemployed boys and girls from the Heritage Foundation now in the Green Zone could share their insights on Fallujah with the Marines who are the on behalf of Preznit Yellow Stripe's hissy-fit last spring.
Iraqi rebels are creeping back into areas cleared by US marines in Fallujah, where the military continues daily to secure homes and try to seize weapons caches before they can be used to again attack US and Iraqi troops, marines say.
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But they also say with increasingly fewer marines -- several units have already left the city following the November attack -- there is virtually no way to keep rebels from taking up refuge in cleared buildings.
"If you want to keep this place secured, you need a whole lot of bodies," said one marine corporal.
The reports sent to the 1600 Crew cite all the flowers and candy being thrown at the Marines as they patrol Fallujah, and they're all signed, Love Dougie and Paulie. Neither of whom has ever had, you know, that actual "Candy and Flowers" lifestyle.
Funny how history continues to repeat itself... When, I wonder, will the CIA and NSA decide to adopt Al Sadyr as one of their own?
"The answer can be found by following the lines of dominant interest and power and watching how the mainstream politicians, media, and intellectuals reflect these demands. Media attention and indignation 'follows the flag,' and the flag follows the money (i.e., the demands of the corporate community), with some eccentricity based on domestic political calculations. This sometimes yields droll twists and turns, as in the case of Saddam Hussein, consistently supported through the 1980s in his war with Iran and chemical warfare attacks on Iraqi Kurds, until his invasion of Kuwait in 1990, transformed him overnight into 'another Hitler.' Similarly, Pol Pot, 'worse than Hitler' until his ouster by Vietnam in 1979, then quietly supported for over a decade by the United States and its western allies (along with China) as an aid in 'bleeding Vietnam,' but now no longer serviceable to western policy and once again a suitable target for a war crimes trial."
The rest of this article is worth reading. If memory serves me, our B-52's should be revving up their jets for blanket bombing right about now. Sadly, there are very few from Indochina that survived the same strategy 30 years ago to tell of the horror.
