Iraqi general receives hero's welcome as US marines leave Fallujah: "A general in Saddam Hussein's former army entered Fallujah to a hero's welcome as US marines left their main foothold in the flashpoint city after a bloody month-long siege.
The marines insisted they would patrol the insurgent bastion side by side with a newly formed Fallujah Brigade and vowed to bring to justice the killers of four US contractors brutally massacred on the town's main street late last month."

Well, this is good news and bad news.
The good news is that it breaks the deadlock and the threat of violence in Fallujah. Thank God for that. Perhaps our rulers are beginning to change their failed policies.
The bad news is that this is a terrible defeat for the American occupation, and a clear victory for Al Sadr. The marines declared they would show the Fallujans who was boss. They are now retreating in favor of a general from Saddam's army! And he is welcomed as a liberator.
Dick Cheney, eat your words about the US being welcomed as liberators. That was a cruel miscalculation, chicken hawk!

- posted by geoff @ #