on my posts #14 and #16 that you would feel free to express, I am still interested.

It still seems to me that Fallajah is still a whole lot more than a purely military problem. The politics, given what we realistically may be able to accomplish militarily, are even worse for Allawi than they were for us - Bush/Challabi/Rumsfeld - whoever was trying to handle political problems back in April.

If you are too busy to address this, to me complex issue, from your perch on the high seas, it can easily await your return. I am interested in your own personal opinion and, of course, the politics seems to get more and more difficult every day.

Good luck to you in all that you are doing for all of us - Pete

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Pete, thanks for dropping the monologue and here are some inputs to your notes 14,16,32:

** In ref to #14 - Concur, this IS ALREADY a military victory in Fallujah as I understand the city is a ghost town with only pocket resistance by the IFWs and those who dare to meet our Marines are taking a one way ticket to Allah. It is a political victory because nobody from DC is directing our Marines to be sensitive this time around. Good show of force for everyone on this planet to watch and to take note.

** In ref to #16 - Fatwah or no fatwah our GIs are whipping the IFWs and there is no need for assistance from anyone inside the city of Fallujah or any other city, and I believe the government which will be elected in Iraq will be a type of government PICKED by the USA and it will succeed, however, we must be careful with the clerics, and I do not believe we will have a fiasco type of government like the one in Iran [that government is a joke and is about to IMPLODE].

** In ref to #32 - I believe the Fallujah PROBLEM is now under control and the only thing we have to do now is to keep the place under the control of the military, control every road in and out and let only the good citizens [without any arms] return to their homes. This is not going to be another political defeat, not this time based on lessons learned from Operation Fallujah back in April and May 2004.

Again, thanks for dropping by to say hello here on The Lowest Rated Monologue on the web.

CFS
PoliticalGurus@Yahoo.com

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The counter keeps going up this month as expected by some military experts due to the operations in Fallujah and other cities in Iraq. We have at least 26 American KIA on the month of November and it is only November 10th. Our GIs are making SIGNIFICANT progress in Fallujah and are now in charge of at least 70 percent of the city, and CFS is not impressed with that number, why did we let the IFW teams take control of the city after the initial whipping during the first couple of months of Iraqi Freedom, where did we go wrong.

CFS
PoliticalGurus@Yahoo.com

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As reported by the AP, the PLO Arafat Dies at 75 "Yasser Arafat, who triumphantly forced his people's plight into the world spotlight but failed to achieve his lifelong quest for Palestinian statehood, died Thursday at age 75." "Palestinian Cabinet minister Saeb Erekat confirmed to The Associated Press that Arafat had died." Note that the PLO leader spent his final days in a coma at a French military hospital outside Paris. And there you have it now it is official, the PLO leader is now at room temp and he did not die with his boots on. Time for another terrorist to step up and take over the PLO.

CFS
PoliticalGurus@Yahoo.com

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The votes counts continues, believe it or not, and here are the latest numbers posted in Yahoo. With GWB winning 286 electoral votes vs JFK winning 252 electoratl votes, and the percentages are, GWB with 51 percent and JFK with 48 percent. On the vote count we have GWB with a total of 59,834,725 votes and JFK with a total of 56,373,528, and I believe GWB will reach the 60 million mark by the end of the count. Incredible. Defeat by the DEM was not as I have expected, it was WORST.

CFS
PoliticalGurus@Yahoo.com

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Correction to reply number 34, the total number of KIA this month is not 26, the correct number reported by various agencies is 25 reported KIA - and our way of doing business here it to correct all erroneous info as soon as the error is discovered. Twenty Five American reported KIA this month in Iraq.

CFS
PoliticalGurus@Yahoo.com

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Central Command hasn't posted but a tiny fraction of the real number killed. On days when 10-11 were killed, they posted 1-2.

MaryAnn

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Mary Ann, they need time to sort things out before they do any official posting. Must of the casualties reported by the media outlets is coming from the imbedded reporter from the city of Fallujah straight to their office here in the states and sometimes the releases are not totally accurate.

CFS
PoliticalGurus@Yahoo.com

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The best thing for those stopping by, just go the LAST post and start reading from the bottom up, some times The Lowest Rated Monologue moves quick, and some times it is just sitting there in the back pages of the political forum. Thanks for dropping by from time to time to say hello.

CFS
PoliticalGurus@Yahoo.com

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I realize they drag a short time behind. They have been since the beginning of the war. However, these are simply not getting posted by CC. CNN keeps the total going up and they are never posted. I have brought this up from the beginning of the war, but it has gotten dramatically worse.

MaryAnn

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GWOT continues on this the GWOT day 1158 [for the count we are including 09/11/01 as the official start of the GWOT when the Patriots of flight 93 fought the IFW team on that flight, forcing the plane to come down without reaching the intended target at the nation's capital].
Back to Fallujah - the latest report this morning is a total of 27 American KIA in Iraq this month, but we are not going to rely on those numbers because they can be changed in the next couple of minutes. From several tv and radio reports, an estimated 600 IFWs have been killed since the start of the battle on Monday night.
This is a substantial number of the 1,200 to 3,000 IFW members thought to be hiding in Fallujah. The number of IFW killed is expected to change as bodies delivered to hospitals and morgues are tallied [as per a military spokeman, we were told that we are not in the business of counting bodies, but I guess this time we will make an exception because we are dealing with a group of the IFW terrorists]. One thing that is happening, the IFW teams are shooting at our Marines from buildings used for religious purposes, our Marines are calling the combat air patrol aircraft and they are dropping 500 pound bombs on any building, including those used for religious purposes, in other words, no more Mr Nice Guy in Fallujah]. As per the AP, "at least 13 U.S. soldiers and Marines have been killed so far in the Fallujah operation, according to military reports pieced together since Monday. The military has been slow in releasing official, comprehensive reports, citing security. The large number of wounded sent to Germany suggests that fighting may be more intense - at least in some areas - than the military had initially indicated. Only seriously wounded troops are flown to Landstuhl." Another thing happening, 2 US Army Super Cobra helicopters were shot down in separate incidents near Fallujah, the crews were not injured and were rescued. One thing noticed by the reporters is the fact that the city looks like a ghost town, some officers on the ground have reported that most IFW teams fled the city before fighting began, and there is a good reason for this, we told the IFW teams that we were coming and they packed and left to safer areas, but the chase will continue and they will be found and arrested or killed. We are in Iraq to stay and no IFW is going to stop us.

CFS
PoliticalGurus@Yahoo.com

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