FARCE IN FALLUJAH

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Since then, five American soldiers have died each day, and another 52 have been wounded. Each and every day. The city of Fallujah has been bombed to rubble, and untold thousands of innocent Iraqi men, women and children have been slaughtered.

As for the bogeyman Zarqawi? Oh, he got away, taking with him his cadre of foreign fighters and leaving behind a well-armed rear guard of local militia. It seems that the two months Bush gifted him between the announcement of the Fallujah assault and its actual launch provided more than enough time to escape.

The concentration of American forces in Fallujah has allowed insurgents in Mosul, Baghdad and the southern "Triangle of Death" to ramp up their activities, and an unequaled reign of terror has spread throughout the country.

In the annals of military history, it is difficult to find a more egregious example of a military operation dictated so completely by domestic political concerns. The battle for Fallujah is yet another pointless chapter in a sad war that didn't have to be fought in the first place.

Niagara Falls Reporter

for the Niagara Falls Reporter can see it, but not those at the mighty NYT or Wash Post. May all THEIR editorial writers have nightmares every night, about the blood on their own hands, until they write the simple truth about this travesty.