Americans will speak of battles like Fallujah with same awe and reverence as Guadalcanal & Iwo Jima

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November 10, 2006



Bush Attends Dedication of the National Museum of the Marine Corps

". . . like the Marines who have come before them, this new generation is adding its own chapters to the stories of liberty and peace. And years from now, when America looks out on a democratic Middle East growing in freedom and prosperity, Americans will speak of the battles like Fallujah with the same awe and reverence that we now give to Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/11/20061110-3.html



Iraqis will speak of battles like Fallujah . . . "



'Lifestyle' in Fallujah: fear, death

"Bush didn't give us democracy; he gave us more new ways to be killed," said al-Rawi, whose complaints were first overheard in a shop by a McClatchy reporter and repeated later in an interview. "I think there is no future anymore. I believe the only future is to leave this country."

"We can win the war, but for now al-Qaida has won in Fallujah," said a police officer who didn't want his name used for security reasons. "They made the police force stop patrolling streets, and that's a victory."

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/special_packages/iraq/15957305.htm



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