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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: h0db who wrote (130925)5/2/2004 3:30:04 AM
From: bela_ghoulashi  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Do you have one shred of documentation for any of this?

Or is it just your own private fantasy?

I think the Marine commander on the ground, Lt. Gen. Conway, looked at the butcher bill the I MEF had paid so far (greater than 30% casualties, which historically means that a unit is no longer mission capable) and submitted a request for reinforcements along with his estimate of what a full assault on the city would mean. Remember, Fallujah has a population of 300,000. I think that he was told that there were no reinforcements, and that his estimates for US and Iraqi casualties in an assault were "unacceptable." At which point, he used his command discretion to cut his own deal with a former Iraqi general who's own peers describe as an opportunist.
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