12 US soldiers dead so far in this zero-sum game....meantime, the biggest bad guys have
all fled:
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The general estimated that two to three thousand insurgents faced American forces in Falluja, but he also said he suspected that many of the senior rebel leaders, including the Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, had fled before the city was sealed off. Several insurgents had been captured and were expected to provide useful intelligence, General Metz said.
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so we'll capture a deserted, wrecked city - and then what? we turn it back over to the Iraqis - and the mayhem resumes. or we occupy it, establish a base these, become the target of car bombs and snipers - and the mayhem resumes....
for how long? at least
four more years 