Just what the occupation needs--more firepower and a grinding campaign!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080202/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
U.S. commanders in northern Iraq have said the battle to oust
al-Qaida in Iraq from its last urban stronghold will not be a swift
strike as al-Maliki suggested, but
It seems to have the same US holy warriors' revenge plot as the
Fallujah campaign.
This is the third-largest city in Iraq and if the US military and its
Iraqi cronies 'do the city' the way they have all of Anbar (and the
British did Basra) another third of Iraq will look like Gaza.
Which
