{"id":663,"date":"2004-03-31T15:52:31","date_gmt":"2004-03-31T22:52:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-03-31T15:52:31","modified_gmt":"2004-03-31T22:52:31","slug":"8-days-in-fallujah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/31\/8-days-in-fallujah\/","title":{"rendered":"8 days in Fallujah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/NewsContent\/0,13319,FL_control_032504,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Marines Take Over Fallujah <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ancapistan.typepad.com\/unfairwitness\/2004\/03\/eyes_on_iraqis.html\" target=\"_blank\">Eyes on Iraqis<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bostonherald.com\/international\/view.bg?articleid=1407\" target=\"_blank\">Marines seek to pacify Fallujah with show of force<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/international\/AP-Iraq.html?ex=1081738462&#038;ei=1&#038;en=93f6e3c04fa24117\" target=\"_blank\">Bomb Kills Five U.S. Soldiers in Iraq<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eveningtimes.co.uk\/hi\/news\/5025134.html\" target=\"_blank\">Iraqi rebels mutilate five foreigners in horror attack<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.findlaw.com\/international\/s\/20040331\/iraqattackdc.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jubilant Iraqis Drag Burned Body Through Streets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although the Marines have instituted a policy of not providing information on killed US Marines, by my count this makes 12 US Marines killed in Fallujah in the past 8 days.  As for civilians, that number is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/cs\/CDA\/ssistory.mpl\/headline\/world\/2466812\" target=\"_blank\">difficult<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iraqbodycount.net\/bodycount.htm\" target=\"_blank\">to determine <\/a>for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detnews.com\/2004\/nation\/0403\/27\/nation-104980.htm\" target=\"_blank\">both Iraqis<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenselink.mil\/news\/Mar2004\/n03302004_200403302.html\" target=\"_blank\">foreigners.<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nIsn&#8217;t it <I>past<\/I> time to admit that social engineering with armies and bombs doesn&#8217;t work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marines Take Over Fallujah Eyes on Iraqis Marines seek to pacify Fallujah with show of force Bomb Kills Five U.S. Soldiers in Iraq Iraqi rebels mutilate five foreigners in horror attack Jubilant Iraqis Drag Burned Body Through Streets Although the Marines have instituted a policy of not providing information on killed US Marines, by my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}