"The Romans create a desolation and call it peace."

America is now out to do the prognosis I mentioned earlier - we will destroy you if you are not with us. They started doing this yesterday at Fallujah, detroying children, women, people, humanity, houses, and a city. Their fault - they were fighting for their freedom.

A nice article in asia times. Some excerpts:
"President George W Bush is "reaching out" to Fallujah - the first major foreign policy initiative of the second Bush administration. The name: Operation Phantom Fury. The strategy: precision-strike democracy. The message: kill them all, and let God sort them out." "On Sunday, before co-launching with the Pentagon the biggest urban war since the storming of Hue in 1968 Vietnam, Allawi installed de facto martial law in Iraq for 60 days. Historians and political scientists are breathlessly trying to explain to the world that no democratic election can possibly be preceded by a state of siege. " " the real motive for turning Fallujah into Grozny is revenge"