Wack a mole

Cross posted at Running Scared

Anyone who has ever fought moles in their yard, I have, can understand what it's like fighting the insurgents in Iraq. You attack the moles on one side of the yard and they pop up over on the other side. When you attack them over there they pop up over in the original location again. Sounds a lot like Iraq doesn't it?

Fallouja May Be in Rebel Sights

FALLOUJA, Iraq — Nine months after U.S. and Iraqi troops killed an estimated 1,000 insurgents here in a battle that also cost more than 70 American lives, intelligence suggests that rebels are trying to filter back into the former capital of Iraq's guerrilla movement.

American commanders in Baghdad and Fallouja say they control the city so completely that the guerrillas cannot regain a foothold. But they acknowledge that Fallouja remains a powerful icon to an insurgency that is keen to stop Sunni Muslim Arabs in western Al Anbar province from participating in an October referendum on Iraq's proposed constitution.

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The prospect of insurgents infiltrating the city presents a daunting problem for military officials. For the embryonic Iraqi government as well as the U.S.-led coalition, commanders say, what happens in Fallouja will symbolize the success or failure of the war.

If insurgents succeed in returning, it would amount to rolling back the coalition's largest military victory since the fall of Baghdad in April 2003.

When the marines destroyed a city of 240,000 to kill 1,000 insurgents they created 240,000 insurgent supporters. The insurgents have at least indirect support in much of Iraq. The Iraqi police and military are infiltrated with anti occupation insurgents. You wack the insurgents in one place they simply surface in another. The US occupation is the major problem so it can never be part of the solution. Support our troops....Bring them home now!!!!