{"id":674,"date":"2004-04-02T08:10:22","date_gmt":"2004-04-02T15:10:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-04-02T08:10:22","modified_gmt":"2004-04-02T15:10:22","slug":"why-pacify-fallujah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/02\/why-pacify-fallujah\/","title":{"rendered":"Why &#8220;pacify&#8221; Fallujah?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/meast\/03\/16\/iraq.main\/\" target=\"_blank\">four American missionaries<\/a> were killed in Mosul.  Then, on March 28, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/world\/iraq\/2004-03-28-iraq_x.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Briton and a Canadian mercenary<\/a> were killed in Mosul.<\/p>\n<p>After 4 mercenaries were killed in Fallujah, Kimmitt goes all ballistic and vows revenge and says he&#8217;s going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myrtlebeachonline.com\/mld\/myrtlebeachonline\/news\/world\/8318537.htm\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;pacify&#8221; Fallujah.<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nIsn&#8217;t this a little&#8230;inconsistent?  Is it the Mogadishu-like desecration that got the American military all riled up?  But that has happened before.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2003\/11\/24\/1069522522180.html\" target=\"_blank\">In Mosul.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, four American missionaries were killed in Mosul. Then, on March 28, a Briton and a Canadian mercenary were killed in Mosul. After 4 mercenaries were killed in Fallujah, Kimmitt goes all ballistic and vows revenge and says he&#8217;s going to &#8220;pacify&#8221; Fallujah. Isn&#8217;t this a little&#8230;inconsistent? Is it the Mogadishu-like [&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-674","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\/674","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=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}