AMERICANS JOLTED BY IRAQ ATROCITIES

Cut and run again leaving the innocent to the mercy and dictates of the terrorists? This is exactly what the terrorists are trying to make happen.

Or maybe, just maybe, we should be so outraged that we will deliver swift justice to the animals who do atrocities like this. If American stands firm and does not cower because things are difficult, the terrorists crawl back into their holes and leave decent people alone.

The four foreigners were killed in a rebel ambush of their SUVs in Fallujah...Jubilant residents dragged the charred corpses of four foreigners -- one a woman, at least one an American -- through the streets Wednesday and hanged them from the bridge spanning the Euphrates River.

NY Post--April 1, 2004 -- A young boy gloats in the charred remains of one of the two SUVs driven by American contractors who were killed after Fallujah terrorists tossed grenades at them.... Bloodthirsty Iraqi thugs ambushed four American workers in Fallujah yesterday, and a frenzied mob dragged their butchered bodies through the streets and hanged two of them from a bridge - while cheering and chanting anti-American slogans

Insurgents attack U.S. convoy in Fallujah
11:35 AM CST on Thursday, April 1, 2004
Associated Press
FALLUJAH, Iraq - A roadside bomb injured three American troops on Thursday near Fallujah, a day after the grisly killing and mutilation of four American contract workers in the city. The top U.S. administrator in Iraq said the deaths would not go unpunished.

Editorial: 4/1/04 Dallas Morning News:
Fallujah Atrocity: U.S. must track down members of mob
12:09 AM CST on Thursday, April 1, 2004
It is hard for those of us who sit in our safe American homes to comprehend the barbarism on display in Fallujah yesterday.

Four American civilian contractors who provided security for food convoys -- food convoys -- were ambushed, burned alive, and playthings made of their charred remains by the fanatical crowd. "Long live Islam!" they chanted, and "God is great!" A young boy planted his foot triumphantly on the black, crusted head of a dead American and said, "Where is Bush? Let him come here and see this."

This is a teachable moment. One way or another, the mobs of Fallujah will see what the American military is made of. Though Fallujah, a snake pit of 230,000 souls, is the most deadly city in Iraq, the lesson will not be lost on other cities in the Sunni triangle, particularly leading up to the planned June handover of the government to Iraqi civilian control. How the U.S. military responds is vitally important.

The mob is hoping that the American public will see the grisly inhumanity of which the Saddam loyalists are capable, and lose its stomach for engagement there. They're counting on a repeat of the retreat from Mogadishu following a similar incident in 1993, memorialized by the book and film Black Hawk Down. That's not going to happen this time.

What must happen, though, is the unflinching determination to subdue that lawless city. Every man and boy present at the murders today must be arrested and punished for their role, even if it was only to laugh at the dead. We must pursue justice -- but not revenge.

This was no ordinary outrage, if only because television cameras broadcast the barbarians' sneering act of defiance around the world. It demands a strong response. For the sake of Iraq's future, no one must be given reason to conclude that the Fallujah mob got away with this atrocity.

LA Times 4/1/04--FALLOUJA, Iraq

An Iraqi boy holds a leaflet saying 'Fallujah, the cemetery of the Americans,' near a burning car. A previously unknown group claimed the gruesome killing of four US contractors in Fallujah, western Iraq (news - web sites), in revenge for Israel's assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.(AFP/File/Karim Sahib)

"Fallujah remains one of those cities in Iraq that just don't get it. It's a former Baathist stronghold.... They have a view that somehow the harder they fight, the better chance they have of achieving some sort of restorationist movement within the country."

I'll tell you what's wrong. He's standing in front of the car that's still burning, holding a PRE PRINTED SIGN. These people were ready to kill Americans.

I think a swift and terrible retribution is in order.

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I'll tell you what's wrong. He's standing in front of the car that's still burning, holding a PRE PRINTED SIGN. These people were ready to kill Americans.

After all, its not like its their country we invaded, or anything...

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I think a swift and terrible retribution is in order.

The Nazis would have agreed with you.

Well normally I respect another member's opinions and refuse to join the insult contests. But I have to say that comparison of the U.S. troops and the humanitarian efforts in Fallujah with the Nazis is at the very best reprehensible.

You are sympathizing with this terrorist?

Can't you all see the madness...and then we continue here to attack each other..to see who has the better put down...God people....when is enough enough?

and then we continue here to attack each other..to see who has the better put down...God people....when is enough enough?