Let's roll - no stops on Iraq attack now

Still compiling leftist blog reaction to last night. In the meantime...

Zeynep reports...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

AIR STRIKE IN FALLUJAH

FALLUJAH, Iraq - A U.S. Air Force plane engaged a pre-planned target using precision ordnance, which destroyed a known enemy cache site on the southeast side of the city, in support of the Regimental Combat Team-7 of the I Marine Expeditionary Force at 11:27 p.m., Nov. 1.

The Multi-National Forces continue to degrade and disrupt the anti-Iraqi forces - capabilities in the Fallujah-Ramadi area.

So, who is this aimed at? If there is anyone with a brain running this show, they'll hope that no Iraqi ever reads this -- it just doesn't work when you first bomb them, and then call them "anti-Iraqi" when they are the Iraqis and you are the foreign occupier. This one isn't really directly aimed at the American public either but at our opiate-pushers: the press corps. This allows them to say "Centcom claimed that they had destroyed a known weapons cache belonging to foreign terrorists. The hospital director, the morgue doctor, journalists at the site and the neighbors of the pulverized house claimed that the strike had hit a civilian house, killing an extended family including many children. Neither claim could be verified. [Unsaid is the following: in every confirmed instance, the neighbors and the hospital directors turned out to be correct. Centcom never produces any proof that it is hitting weapons caches. It's not even clear what right they'd have to hit anything, since they are an occupying army obligated under international law to withdraw, not bomb. Yes, we call ourselves journalists, why do you ask?]"

UPDATE: Note in the video on Falluja here that these attacks were placed on hold until after the election.