Fallujah: US jets pound with 500 lb. bombs, warn women & kids to flee

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041106/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq&cid=540&ncid=716

NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq - Long convoys of American soldiers rolled onto a dust-blown base on the outskirts of Fallujah as U.S. warplanes intensified attacks in preparation for a wider assault on the city, a symbol of Iraqi resistance.

More than 10,000 American soldiers and Marines massed for an expected offensive, and Iraq's prime minister warned the "window is closing" to avert an attack.

U.S. planes dropped five 500-pound bombs at several targets in Fallujah early Saturday, including a factory as well as suspected weapons caches. The drone of U.S. aircraft heading toward Fallujah could be heard over Baghdad. The U.S. military said the main highway into Fallujah has now been completely sealed off.

Residents reached by telephone Friday said the air raids were the most intense in months, and that, as well as bombs, U.S. planes dropped leaflets urging women and children to leave Fallujah, a city of some 300,000 people 40 miles west of Baghdad.

these women and kids to flee to?

At least they are trying to get them out of there, more than the terrorists would do.

Eat my fucking shorts!

Are you scared of fucking terrorists?

What fucking terrorists?

Did you fucking vote for bush?

WTF?????

to "get" a phantom -- a myth created by the bush crime family.

My theory is that bushie needs to kill to get it up -- and he needs to murder more and more people in order to get turned on.

Just like he murdered thousands to "get" Saddam.

Anyway I agree with webster-green --

I guess my ancestors were terrorists -- my terrorists ancestors fought the British to create what we now call the United States. They were defending their home against invaders dress in red uniforms. My Revolutionary war ancestors wore no uniform. So therefore my today's standards my ancestors were terrorists.

Oh and some other ancestors were Quakers -- Pacifists.

As for myself (for fucking fbi who read DU) I am opposed to violence and I am pro PEACE. Oh right in todays Orwellian world -- Peace means a new kind of criminal??

I guess "Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men" won't be heard this Christmas -- seeing that this is a forbidden word.

Be they terrorists, insurgents, or whatever. We killed 3 million in Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia. How many do you think it'll take to really win this time?

Dumb mother fuckers.

but people with little kids aren't exactly quick on their feet. and you need to get food. and shelter. and hubby isn't around now to help is he? and grandma what about her? leave her old ass behind? are you taking a babysitter you gotta have these kids with you while you forage in a wartorn country? JUST LEAVE???????

you mean the terrorists that showed up after we "liberated" the country?

...meaning "where the hell are they to flee?"

blow them all away. Death is the ultimate liberation.
ARRRGGHH!!!

This is not a video game.

But to those causing the majority of collatoral damage it is as emotionally remote as a video game.

The pilot who uttered those words was a pawn.

Recruiters troll for video game addicts you know.

Run while you can. No refuge designated for you but run!

How do they leave?

Or will this be the "Highway of Death" revisited?

Not that any news program will ever show the aftermath.
Not in THIS country, anyway.

Like we did before? Because ALL men that are physically capable of pointing a gun MUST be terrorists.

the height of a cart wheel was the european rule of thumb i believe.

women or children included. They are capable of fighting and the children will grow up to be terrorists, right? They are mostly Sunnis and they are the enemy. No wait, MUSLIMS in general are the enemy. Oh, let's just blow the whole country off the face of the earth.
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on a city? On a CITY? Fuck.

You read correctly.