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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (127957)	3/31/2004 3:53:01 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 281500

A crowd of cheering Iraqis dragged the charred and mutilated bodies of four contractors working for the U.S.-led coalition through the streets of Falluja Wednesday after they died in an ambush. Everyone of these individuals should be hunted down, detained, and charged. We have irrefutable proof of their identities and actions by way of the video and photographic footage. I also believe we should move whatever troops are required to pacify the Fallujah sector. This town must be brought to heel (which was difficult even for Saddam Hussein)... I was disappointed by the reaction of a US general who seemed hesitant to discuss plans for retaliation. This is just utterly disgusting and goes far beyond mere resistance. It's desecration of the dead. These people might constitute a minority in Fallujah, as this general claimed, but they are sufficient to intimidate those moderates who would like to secure some return to normality. Boots on the ground are required.. We can apologize to those we inconvenience along the way. But few would be able to logically argue that the US would be wrong to respond severely and clamp the city down... Reward cooperation, punish bad behavior (and especially desecration of the dead)... And make that town secure enough that any moderate residents feel safe enough to inform on those who carried out, as well as approved of, this gruesome attack and mutilation. Hawk