You didn't answer the question.
Because the answer you're looking for doesn't exist. As much as you seemingly wish they did, the Marines didn't kill tens of thousands of civilians in clearing Fallujah. They didn't need to, because there weren't tens of thousands of insurgents fighting, as you stubbornly insist there were. If there were 30,000 insurgents fighting from the onset, the Marines would never send in only 10,000 troops.
I get the sense that whatever the Americans do in Iraq, you will continue to criticize them. Thats fine, and I'll do it too when I see the need for them to be criticized. I don't see the clearing of Fallujah as a bad thing. I see it as a necessary step in the process of steering Iraq towards something resembling an orderly, law abiding society. Just my opinion.
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