Fallujah

[Bill Moore]

While Fallujah was one of the toughest cities, it has been dominated by coalition forces for several months now, yet as the Marines begin to pull out the Iraqi insurgent becomes dominant again. As the COL in the article stated, the city has an iconic value, but beyond that it will be seen as a test for the new Bush Strategy (another iconic value) of turning over the fight to the Iraqis. If we lose Fallujah "again" the IO impact will be significant (this is the understatement of the year).

Assuming that this article is mostly accurate, it indicates that we shouldn't pull of Fallujah yet, so I hope we have enough sense to reverse course and hold the line there, especially there.

Bill

[RTK]

By the way (as a matter of curiosity), how many items in this article would you go crazy over if you were the Battalion S2?

I count 5 seperate items. And I'm not even an intel guy.