Looks like we are going into Fallujah with tanks.

[keithyboy]

"US tanks have taken up positions around Falluja and appear to be preparing to enter the Iraqi city.

At least 15 tanks were seen on Wednesday taking up temporary stations one kilometre past the US checkpoint that leads into the city.

Iraqi officials in Falluja confirmed that American troops had asked local authorities to provide them with safe passage through the city."

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E8E5D69B-FF87-4E8C-9CF8-637197702743.htm

[Hubert Flottz]

1. If they were really doing what they said they would do it would be

septic tanks! Over a year and we're still paying to blow the place up! I wonder how much more fixing it ALL will cost?

[GOPisEvil]

2. Lovely...run a google search on "Hama, Syria"...

Then, when you've read up on that city, praying for the people of Fallujah.

[LittleApple81]

6. I did...but I must have found the wrong links. Could you clarify

your statement? I am really interested in this.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. They're probably referring to the massacre in 1982

http://csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/durableRedirect.pl?/durable/2000/06/20/p1s3.htm

under the present Syrian president's father.

[LittleApple81]

8. Thanks. n/t

[GOPisEvil]

9. Yes, that's it. You are correct.

Sorry I was absent to answer the question.

Hafez Assad pretty much had the place leveled, along with its inhabitants, pesky fundamentalist Muslims that they were.

[LittleApple81]

3. I thought they already are like a separate conservative Muslim enclave.

Liquor salesmen beaten up, women forced to wear the burka, etc. At least that is what I have read.
Apparently they don't like a puppet Iraqi general....hummmmm... so what about the "NEW AND IMPROVED" Gestapo and army the "legal Iraqi government" is going to organize in "cooperation" with the USA?

[gasperc]

4. under cover of Rayguns funeral

:beer:

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. Not again?

Didn't we find out last time, that we can't beat the Iraqis on their own turf. Not unless W wants an excuse to nuke the place? He pretty desperate for a distraction right now. Who knows what he'll decide to blow up?