"The battle for Fallujah could last seven days."

[DemoTex]

That is the current media whore meme. Talking point of the day.

Well, maybe. Maybe not. The Hue City battle (February 1968) lasted over four weeks.


DemoTex photo. Hue and the Perfume River.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. seven days how freackign biblcal

quick somebody look into revelations, and I ain't shitting you

[Mojambo]

4. That was my exact reaction

Sounds very biblical.

[DemoTex]

6. Actually, it will probably be the more significant (Biblically) ..

Forty days and forty nights.

[karlrschneider]

9. Or maybe seventy times seven...

:eyes:

[DemoTex]

12. Actually, that is the scripture that my Ga Tech physics prof used to prove

that heaven is hotter than hell. He figured the specific heat of "seventy times seven the radiance of the sun" (heaven) and compared it to hell's "lake of fire and brimstone." Just to be safe he used an estimate of the volume of all the fresh water lakes in the world. Heaven came out much hotter. Too bad all the fundies got up and left before the lecture was over. It cemented the basics of thermodynamics in my mind forever.

[tk2kewl]

17. fundies never really bother

to understand the new testament

[tk2kewl]

18. fundies never really bother

to understand the new testament

[tjdee]

2. Why is it lasting for seven days if the Iraqis are glad we liberated them?

I mean, I thought we were winning, and I thought the Iraqis loved us and wanted to give us flowers and candies??

Surely after one day we will force them to see how wonderful we are??

:(

[PretzelWarrior]

3. well, the ORIGINAL "battle" may last that long....

but they will melt away and continue to hit them and hit them.

so sad...many civilians dying including little kids.

[tk2kewl]

5. So next Monday...

we will hear "Mission Accomplished!"

[GiovanniC]

16. Please Don't Post That Picture Ever Again

I do not appreciate the taste of my own vomit. Thanks.

[Carolinian]

7. Would that be long enough for the election fraud story to grow cold????

[VivaKerry]

8. Jesus Christ. As long as it took GOD to create EVERYTHING

Oh, and the resting day at the end of all that creating and all.

Oh, that is a message to make the fundies feel all warm and fuzzy.

How will they feel a year from now when fallujah and evirons are still picking off our soldiers one by one?

[eleonora]

10. what's the name of the operation already? "Enduring Fury"?

[whistle]

11. How much poison and toxic WMDs are we firing into the environment...

...of Iraq right now? This will become a wasteland surrounded by the desert and no one will be able to live there.

[peacetalksforall]

13. Fast forward - citizens are asked to contribute to the reconstruction of

the city of Falluja (so that Halliburton can be assured a source of income).

Sorry, anger at these monsters kicks off cynicism.

[jmknapp]

14. Dien Bien Fallujah

God forbid

[DemoTex]

15. You have struck to my history heart, jmknapp.

I am a student of that battle. I once had a license plate that read DNBNFU. Very few people "got it." I actually got to buzz Dien Bien Phu in March of 1971. We were fragged way up on the Laos/North Vietnam border, so we sneaked a peak. I have pictures of the Plain of Jars from that mission, but I was way to nervous on that low-level, highly illicit pass over Dien Bien Phu to pick up a camera.

I really want to visit Dien Bien Phu. It is like a magnet to my soul. Dien Bien Phu is just another reason that my life is so closely connected to the lives of the beautiful people of Vietnam.



Deep Laos. Plain of Jars. Headed for Dien Bien Phu. We flew the Nam Yum river valley (Dien Bien Phu) at about 100 feet. We actually had good maps for the region and our Litton inertial navigation system was perfect.