BTW, as the refugees are streaming out of Fallujah and Ramadi, just what protections do they receive from US troops? Hmmm???

Here is a quote from a recent Detroit Free Press article:

"U.S. planes pounded the city late Friday in what residents called the strongest attacks in months. Residents reached by telephone said the aircraft were striking targets in the central city market as well as neighborhoods in the north, south and east.

That followed five air strikes Thursday night on targets in the city, a sharp escalation from recent days. U.S. officials said the strikes were intended to destroy a weapons cache, a barricade put up by insurgents and an area booby-trapped with homemade bombs.

Much of the town's population has fled, sending a steady stream of refugees toward Baghdad, and some insurgent leaders may have tried to escape amid the fleeing civilians. On Friday, residents said, U.S. planes dropped leaflets urging women and children to leave."

A bit odd, I would say, the "residents" who were reached by phone to comment upon the current wave of US bombings and air strikes, when news reports say residents already have "mostly fled" the city. Interesting. The US has no one on the ground in the city of Fallujah, yet can claim the city is evacuated, at the same time reporters are able to reach residents by phone.

I'm sure the US Marines consider dropping leaflets telling women and children to leave, sufficient notice of their imminent slaughter if they don't. It will be their own damn fault then, right?

Just gets curiouser and curiouser.