Fallujah on Fire
Command Post has it all, of course.
The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And this war become a real quagmire
Come on baby, set Fallujah on fire.
We did all we could. We tried ceasefires, we tried to get the women and children to leave. We asked them to lay down their weapons. We did the house to house thing.
If we don't do this, they're only going to laugh at us. While they're killing us.
Will there be ripple effects? Sure there will. Should that stop us from decimating these animals? No. The time to win friends in Fallujah is over. They never were our friends to begin with.
A few thousand terrorists are in Fallujah. And they aren't just Iraqis. They're Syrians, Afghans, Iranians, et al. Get them while they're gathered. And put al Sadr atop the pyre.
Godspeed, soldiers.
Comments
On the drive home, 'All Things Considered" was interviewing an imbed with the Marines in Fallujah. He was clueless about what was happening, but he did mention that the AC-130 (Spectre) Gunship was particularly active this evening.
Callsign for the Spectre?
Slayer
Gotta love it.
Posted by: Wind Rider | April 27, 2004 03:50 PM
I've seen what Spooky can do, and I would not want to be where those tracers fall.
Posted by: Dave in Texas | April 27, 2004 04:04 PM
You mess with the bull, you get the horns.
Posted by: Vincent Vega | April 27, 2004 04:09 PM
This is where I say "Kill them all and let Satan sort them out."
Posted by: Laurence Simon | April 27, 2004 04:10 PM
Winning friends and influencing people through superior firepower.
Well, the US is damned if they do, damned if they don't.
As has been said, the US makes for a poor occuptational authority. We just aren't brutal enough. Some may find that ghastly but it's just the way things are. If you're going to be called a brutal oppressive imperialist, you may as well get the benefits.
Posted by: Ryan | April 27, 2004 04:17 PM
They will always hate us anyway,so the only option is to make sure that they're scared sh**less of us.
Posted by: mbruce | April 27, 2004 04:33 PM
There's a very good explanation of the fighting tactics and of the reasons for the negotiations in the latest post at the belmont club.
http://belmontclub.blogspot.com/
Most likely the jihadis will fight to the last man and take as many civilians with them as possible. The negotiations were probably meant as a way to get some civilians out of the way and to create connections to the city elders. "the links with community elders is probably the only hope for averting a large number of potential civilian deaths"
Posted by: Joshua Scholar | April 27, 2004 04:48 PM
OK, who had April 27 in the "Michele returns to war blogging" pool?
Posted by: Mark | April 27, 2004 04:51 PM
"You are a bunch of stupid fucks."
On cue.
Posted by: Ryan | April 27, 2004 05:04 PM
Michele: just remember the great words spoken by Mark Twain:
"Write what you know about"
Posted by: mr. lawson | April 27, 2004 05:05 PM
Ryan, deleted that comment. My new "take no prisoners" policy.
Posted by: michele | April 27, 2004 05:07 PM
"Ryan, deleted that comment. My new "take no prisoners" policy."
OK...I'll will not copy or reference such then.
Posted by: Ryan | April 27, 2004 05:10 PM
So, if things like You are a bunch of stupid fucks aren't allowed, can I still get away with saying things like I want to fuck a bunch of you stupid? Because, you know, fucking someone till they're stupid would really be fucking someone. I think.
Posted by: Ryan | April 27, 2004 05:26 PM
Ok, I am SO using that.
"I'm gonna fuck you stupid!"
Yeah.
Posted by: michele | April 27, 2004 05:29 PM
I should note here that there are severe and dangerous side-effects to being fucked stupid. For example, many of the folks found at Democratic Underground are obviously casualties of being fucked stupid at some point in their lives. Which is tough to understand, seeing as how impossible it is to believe those folks could ever get laid.
Posted by: Ryan | April 27, 2004 05:33 PM
As long as I'm doing the fucking and not the one being fucked stupid, that's ok.
Posted by: michele | April 27, 2004 05:35 PM
I'm just sayin' Michele. That's a might powerful ability you have at your disposal. Use it wisely, padawan.
Posted by: Ryan | April 27, 2004 06:26 PM
To quote James Lileks, the Marines and Army should "convert the miscreants" in Fallujah "into jam."
Posted by: Dr_Funk | April 27, 2004 06:31 PM
Speaking as an English teacher, I can tall you that...
I'm going to fuck you stupid!
...is not the same as...
I'm going to fuck you, stupid.
It's all in the intonation.
Posted by: Pale Infidel | April 27, 2004 10:03 PM
The comma makes all the difference.
Posted by: michele | April 27, 2004 10:16 PM
Commas. The difference between a Grammar GODDESS and a Grammar, uh... whatever grammar thing I was that wasn't a God.
Maybe it was a Kelsey Grammar?
Posted by: Dave in Texas | April 27, 2004 10:25 PM
This is where I say "Kill them all and let Satan sort them out."
Charming.
Say, Michele, not to be all finger-waggy or anything, but I thought you were done with the political stuff. Kind of for this reason.
"I'm gonna fuck you stupid!"
Actually, I believe there's a similar line in the excellent (and totally underrated) movie Way of the Gun. There's a scene in the beginning where a character (named P. Whipped) says,
"I'm gonna slap you stupid and I'm gonna fuck you silly."
Or something like that.
Posted by: Joshua | April 28, 2004 02:10 AM
What? Are you telling me I may be guilty of some sort of plagiarism? I refuse to believe that. How could somebody have come up with something as witty as fucking someone stupid who wasn't me? This is simply unnacceptable. I must pause now to ponder the ramifications of such a claim. Joshua, you can be such a bitch sometimes.
Posted by: Ryan | April 28, 2004 09:36 AM
Joshua, you can be such a bitch sometimes.
Okay. I think you're joking, but just so we're clear: I wasn't accusing you fo being a biter. I was just saying I've heard a line like that before, and it was funny.
Posted by: Joshua Norton | April 28, 2004 04:08 PM