Morning, y’all, Prophet Sallami Sallami Mohammed here on another infidel destroying White Trash Wednesday. All jihadi’s around the world are snickering with our camels over this report
A secret intelligence assessment of the first battle of Fallujah shows that the U.S. military thinks that it lost control over information about what was happening in the town, leading to “political pressure” that ended its April 2004 offensive with control being handed to Sunni insurgents.
“The outcome of a purely military contest in Fallujah was always a foregone conclusion – coalition victory,” read the assessment, prepared by analysts at the U.S. Army’s National Ground Intelligence Center, or NGIC.
“But Fallujah was not simply a military action, it was a political and informational battle. … The effects of media coverage, enemy information operations and the fragility of the political environment conspired to force a halt to U.S. military operations,” concluded the assessment.
The brethren couldn’t have done it without you, liberals and the liberal Big Media! We probably do not say thank you for your support often enough, so, thank you!
The authors said the press was “crucial to building political pressure to halt military operations,” from the Iraqi government and the Coalition Provisional Authority, which resulted in a “unilateral cease-fire” by U.S. forces on April 9, after just five days of combat operations.
Crucial to the failure, the authors said, was the role of the Arabic satellite news channels Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya.
An Al Jazeera crew was in Fallujah during the first week of April 2004, when the Marines began their assault on the city of 285,000 people.
The good channels. And your American media picked it up and lapped it up like a rabid kitten at a bowl of milk.
Fortunately, your pResident B*sh (got that saying from the Democratic Underground), who was facing reelection, bowed to the pressure from the hysterical left (just because we thank them, doesn’t mean we like them. I believe you call them “useful idiots”) and did not level Fallujah.
I reckon I do have the feeling that the leaker of this secret document is going to be in big trouble, though.
