As I suggested a couple days ago, we have 3 options;

• Nuke 'em let Allah/god/Chthulu sort 'em out
• stay the present course and keep the coffin/bodybag lobby happy
• get the fsck out of dodge

"Take out the leaders" may have worked in Dungeons and Dragons, but it's not going to work in this case. Remember my Sorcerer's Apprentice analogy? Yeah, like that.

Can't find Sadr. He's mixed in Fallujah's population. That's why you destroy Fallujah entirely, and serve notice to the rest of the no-go-zones. Who cares, after all? Fallujah's a dump. We'd be doing them a favor, actually.

Sadr isn't in Fallujah...he is down S in Sh!et land ....Narjf or what ever they call it? That F place is Sunni land....and that Alwari Terrorist is known to hang out in the Mosques there...

Whichever. Nuke one of them.

I KNEW IT! :D. . .I knew that's where you were going . .heheh.

Ya know. . . we could likely get the same effect by "testing one" out in their desert there. ;)

Of course you knew, because honestly, doesn't that seem like the natural progression? We're not pulling out - not in this day in age. Yes, Vietnam was different. Not the war - but the perception - and the media coverage. This is much different because of those two ingredients - perception and coverage.

Colin Powell wasn't yanking GW's leash when he said "You'll own it." We do own it. Now how do we fix it? Tit-for-tat schoolyard punches is good for lots of lost $$ billions. Nah, we need to get this thing finished. It's the only way as I see it.

And sure, maybe these Iraqis are nothing more than a glorified collection of tribesmen and vagabonds. If that's the case then it's more than evident that they need a lead herdsman.

So where does that leave us? Where else? The New Saddam, only this time with lighter skin and better tailored clothes.

Remember I said stabile not Democratic...

Nah...really screw them over....put the old Saddam back in charge.

It seems to be working...from a NY Post article:

U.S. commanders said they believe the near-daily targeting of foreign fighters is starting to create fissures among insurgents in Fallujah. Initially, the outsiders were welcomed by the Mujaheddin Shura Council, an 18-member group of clerics, tribal sheiks and former Baath Party members who effectively run the city and elements of the insurgency. But now, many Fallujah residents appear to be growing weary of Zarqawi's followers, according to residents interviewed by telephone.

Zarqawi's agenda appears to extend well beyond the goal of residents, who want to keep U.S. forces out of the city. He and his supporters have turned the city into a base for wider attacks, particularly against Iraqi officials and security forces. His loyalists, many of whom adhere to the strict Salafi school of Islam, also have attempted to instill hard-line social restrictions, demanding that women cover their hair and hectoring men for not growing beards. Although Fallujah is a deeply religious city, many residents follow mystical Sufi beliefs, such as praying by the graves of relatives, which Salafis regard as blasphemous.

In what may be the strongest sign of tension between residents and foreigners, the head of the Shura Council, Abdullah Janabi, who had invited foreigners to the city in April, issued a statement on Friday calling Zarqawi a "criminal."

"We don't need Zarqawi to defend our city," said Janabi, who sought to draw a distinction between what he called "Iraqi resistance fighters" and foreign fighters engaged in a campaign against Iraq's infrastructure, foreign civilians and Iraqi security forces. "The Iraqi resistance is something and the terrorism is something else. We don't kidnap journalists and we don't sabotage the oil pipelines and the electric power stations. We don't kill innocent Iraqis. We resist the occupation."

Zarqawi's actions, Janabi said, have "harmed the resistance and made it lose the support of people."

Residents have reported skirmishes between residents and foreign fighters in recent weeks. The fighting has broken out after residents, fearful of airstrikes, have sought to evict foreigners from their neighborhoods, the residents said.

A delegation from the Shura Council intends to travel to Baghdad this week for discussions with Iraqi government officials aimed at a negotiated settlement that would allow Iraqi security forces to enter the city, council members said. But two demands of the council — that non-Iraqi fighters loyal to the council be allowed to stay in Fallujah and that U.S. forces remain outside the city — could scuttle the talks. Iraqi government officials have expressed an unwillingness to permit foreign fighters or create exclusion zones for U.S. forces.