last summer if O'Reilly would send his own child to fight in Fallujah to "retake"
that city from "insurgents". Now that we know the "price" of our current
"progress" in Fallujah is 38 dead American troops and 275 wounded, and......
in view of the current conditions in Iraq, would you volunteer to go there to
fight for the "liberation" of another Iraqi city, or urge a member of your own
family to do so? Why, or why not?
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......While U.S. forces have won a military victory, the process of rebuilding Falluja, assisting around 150,000 residents who fled, and preparing it for January elections could take months.
Iraq's Red Crescent group sent seven truckloads of food and medicine to the city, but U.S. forces blocked the aid convoy at Falluja's main hospital and said it could not enter. The convoy turned back on Monday after three days of frustration.
"It's our third day here at the hospital and all we have done is receive promises from the Americans," Hassan Rawi, a member of the International Federation of the Red Cross, said.
American commanders say they are working to deliver assistance to the city themselves, and urged any Iraqis needing aid to go to Falluja's main hospital, on the western outskirts Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said he did not believe any civilians were killed in the offensive, which has left 38 U.S. soldiers, 6 Iraqi troops and more than 1,200 insurgents dead. But witness accounts contradicted him.
A member of an Iraqi relief committee told Al Jazeera television he saw 22 bodies buried in rubble in Falluja's northern Jolan district on Sunday.
"Of the 22 bodies, five were found in one house as well as two children whose ages did not exceed 15 and a man with an artificial leg," Mohammed Farhan Awad said. <a href="http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6816418">http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6816418</a>
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Fighting erupts in Sunni Muslim heartland
CTV.ca News Staff
As U.S. forces reportedly mop up the last remaining pockets of resistance in Fallujah, fierce battles are being waged in Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland.
The death toll is mounting as U.S. and Iraqi forces face opposition in several Iraqi cities, including Baqouba, Ramadi and Mosul.
In Fallujah, where the offensive is now in its second week, warplanes are making between 20-30 bombing sorties in the city.
The assault has left at least 38 U.S. troops and six Iraqi soldiers dead. Another 275 American soldiers have been wounded. <a href="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1100519625068_21?hub=World">http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1100519625068_21?hub=World</a>
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