A Year Later: Remembering Fallujah

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

http://ftssoldier.blogspot.com/2004/11/holiday-in-falluja_19.html

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...I was in Falluja during the last two days of the final assault. My mission was much different from that of the brave and weary infantry and marines involved in the major fighting. I was on an escort mission, accompanied by a squad who’s task it was to protect a high brass figure in the combat zone. This particularly arrogant officer went to the last battle in the same spirits of an impartial spectator checking out the fourth quarter of a high school football game. Once we got to the marine occupied Camp Falluja and saw artillery being fired into town, the man suddenly became desperate to play an active role in the battle that would render Falluja to ashes. It was already rumored that all he really wanted was his trigger time, perhaps to prove that he is the toughest cowboy west of the Euphrates. Guys like him are a dime a dozen in the army: a career soldier who spent the first twenty years of his service patrolling the Berlin Wall or guarding the DMZ between North and South Korea...

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[Neil Lisst]

1. it reads like fiction

so I'm assuming it is, and not good fiction, either

[Briar]

2. We should remember Fallujah

For what really happened, not for the Hollywood version we get here and will get in the history-forging film that is on the horizon.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

4. "We should remember Fallujah for what really happened"

I agree wholeheartedly. If you have credible information that effectively counters or debunks all or some part of this soldier's account of his experience in the final two days of the Fallujah slaughter, please feel free to post it. To criticize someone's writing without offering any supporting argument is not very compelling. If you feel strongly enough to post the criticism, you should have something with which to back it up.

[thebigidea]

3. nicked my title, too

I started off kind of disgusted by the technoweaponlust, but it calmed down and developed into a pretty thoughtful piece lacking in Barry McCaffrey-esque bullshit.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

5. Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre

Here's a video you won't see on CNN---some of it pretty graphic.

The American public needs to see this:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10907.htm