Reversals in hard-won Iraqi city vex veterans

[Omaha Steve]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20140108/DAB6P8O01.html

By ALLEN G. BREED and JULIE WATSON

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Shirley Parrello knows that her youngest boy believed in his mission in Iraq. But as she watches Iraqi government forces try to retake the hard-won city of Fallujah from al-Qaida-linked fighters, she can't help wondering if it was worth Marine Lance Cpl. Brian Parrello's sacrifice.

"I'm starting to feel that his death was in vain," the West Milford, N.J., woman said of her 19-year-old son, who died in an explosion there on Jan. 1, 2005. "I'm hoping that I'm wrong. But things aren't looking good over there right now."

The 2004 image of two charred American bodies hanging from a bridge as a jubilant crowd pelted them with shoes seared the city's name into the American psyche. The brutal house-to-house battle to tame the Iraqi insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad cemented its place in U.S. military history.

But while many are disheartened at Fallujah's recent fall to Islamist forces, others try to place it in the context of Iraq's history of internal struggle since the ouster of dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003. And they don't see the reversal as permanent.

FULL story at link.

[leftyohiolib]

1. he died cause bush wanted to be a war president

cause in war you can steal and steal they did..sorry for your loss

[KoKo]

2. Recommend!

I'm wondering if the "Second" Battle of Fallujah will be an event that will wake people up as to: "What was it all for? Bush/Cheney/Rummy's and the MIC's misbegotten/tragic adventure to remake the Middle East.