Troops take over houses of fleeing Fallujah residents

FALLUJAH, Iraq ---- The modest brick-and-concrete home in northwest Fallujah belongs to a working-class Iraqi family. But they don't live there right now. Last week, like thousands of other residents of this besieged city, they abandoned their home ---- and all their belongings ---- to escape getting crushed between Iraqi insurgents and American might.

The now bullet-ridden structure has new occupants: A platoon of Marine infantrymen who have scoured the cupboards and drawers for anything useful and who have converted the home into a defensible base while they hunker down and await a break in a 4-day-old cease-fire.

Between 100,000 and 200,000 people fled Fallujah last week after Marines surrounded the city and battled insurgents in the industrial slums and underdog neighborhoods at the city's edges.

Now, with a cease-fire in effect, troops of the Camp Pendleton-based 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment used an additional day of peace Wednesday to fortify the homes until the troops are free to pursue the insurgents into the city....

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http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/04/15//military/iraq/22_57_534_14_04.txt

if we do to iraq all the rotten things that england did to the american colonies, perhaps they're see the logic in a u.s.-style constitution!

looks like they're working hard on the 3rd amendment right now, quartering of soldiers.

and what our constitution would say...

maybe we would have ended up like Canada - whooops - I started out writing a negative post...

Well, I don't think Iraq would end up as good as Canada, if we force them to be the way we want them to be.

Too bad Iraq doesn't get the benefit of our Constitution. What there is left of it...