[Mb-civic] Why America Has Waged a Losing Battle on Fallouja

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Why America Has Waged a Losing Battle on Fallouja 
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Marines were on the verge of taking the city in April when politics intervened. U.S. misjudgment, disagreement and shifting strategy ended up fanning the flames of the Iraqi insurgency.

By Alissa J. Rubin and Doyle McManus
Times Staff Writers

October 24 2004

FALLOUJA, Iraq — As soon as the women of Fallouja learned that four Americans had been killed, their bodies mutilated, burned and strung up from a bridge, they knew a terrible battle was coming. 

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