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Falluja Assault and Battlefields to Come
Today the United States military began an extensive campaign against the iraqi city of Falluja, which has been under the control of anti-American forces. We can no longer claim that we are fighting outside trouble-makers from Osama bin Laden. Nor can we claim that our armies are fighting to free iraqis from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein. No, now we are attacking iraqi forces who simply don't want to live under an American occupation. I don't sympathize with those who would use violence to drive out American forces but I can certainly understand why they want their own country back--and back now, without U.S imposed limitation on future constitutions.
In Afghanistan and iraq we've seen that winning battles has been easy but winning the peace elusive. The new military campaign in Falluja hints of yet more battlefields to come. Perhaps if President Bush had served in Vietnam he would have learned some lessons from that war, but unfortunately permanent war has become our governing policy now as it was then. We have just sunk a few more inches into the quagmire.
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