Razing Falluja

I really need to expand my monitoring of the destruction of Falluja to include the other Iraqi cities targeted to be bombed into submission. This article reports the latest hellfire we are raining on Samarra.

The U.S. military says it will retake guerrilla strongholds such as Samarra, the western cities of Falluja and Ramadi and the Baghdad districts of Sadr City and Haifa Street by the end of the year so elections can go ahead in January as planned.

Reuters article

Even if we have to flatten them, by God. There's no freedom in a vote when the alternative is a bomb. (By the way, they are no longer insurgents, but rather "anti-Iraqi forces".

U.S.-led forces stormed Samarra on Friday and said nearly 100 guerrillas were killed in air strikes and street-to-street combat during a major new American offensive to wrest control of the Iraqi town.

Doctors at Samarra's hospital said 47 bodies were brought in, including 11 women, five children and seven elderly men. They said ambulances could not reach many wounded as fighting, which lasted throughout the night, was still going on.

For those of us who choose to remain in denial, the official word is that we are wresting the city from terrorists who are holding it hostage.

...believe what you want...you will anyway.