Fallujah Delenda Est

international | anti-war / imperialism | other press Saturday November 06, 2004 16:14 by redjade

{ Cathage Delenda Est }

four days after the US election, Bush escalates the war to a new level.....

election is over - now the real war begins...

Photo:
A hospital worker cleans blood from the halls of a hospital iin the insurgent-held city of Fallujah, Iraq (news - web sites) Friday, Nov. 5, 2004. In multiple airstrikes that continued through early Friday....

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/041105/481/bag10511051041

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Observation: Waiting for Falluja
http://www.kevinsites.net/2004_10_17_archive.html#109845441136575561

I'm currently embedded with the Third Battalion, First Regiment Marines or the "Thundering Third" as they like to be known -- waiting for the long-rumored offensive to retake the stubborn, insurgent-held city of Falluja -- prior to Iraq's January elections.

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20 U.S. Soldiers Wounded in Ramadi
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20041106/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
By The Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Twenty American soldiers were wounded in the Sunni Triangle city of Ramadi on Saturday, the U.S. military said without elaborating. Residents of that insurgent stronghold, located 70 miles west of Baghdad, reported clashes and explosions throughout the day.

Also Saturday, insurgents set off at least two car bombs and attacked a police station in the central Iraqi town of Samarra, killing at least 21 people and wounding 22 in what could be an effort to take pressure off Fallujah, where U.S. forces are gearing up for an assault.

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Fallujah Delenda Est
By Jack Wheeler
Friday, April 2, 2004
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/4/2/100042.shtml

In the Senate of Ancient Rome, Marcus Porcius Cato – 234-149 B.C., subsequently known as Cato the Elder to distinguish him from his great-grandson Cato the Younger – became famous for concluding every single speech he gave, no matter what the subject, with the exhortation: Carthago delenda est. Carthage must be destroyed.

Today, we need senators and congressmen to conclude every speech they give with the exhortation: Fallujah delenda est. Fallujah must be destroyed.

I don’t mean metaphorically. I mean for the entire population of the city, every man, woman and child, given 24 hours to leave and be dispersed in resettlement camps, moved in with relatives in another village, wherever, and the town turned into a ghost town.

Then the entire city carpet-bombed by B-52s into rubble, the rubble ground into powdered rubble by Abrams tanks, and the powdered rubble sown with salt as the Romans did with Carthage. Fallujah must be physically obliterated from the face of this earth.