After watching the film "Control Room" and reading another of other sources about how the Pentagon propaganda appartus is now targeting the American people instead of the enemy, I have become extremely skeptical of all military documents claiming to relay information to the American people. The proof that it is now obvious that the Saddam statute-toppling was a rigged media event, along with their admission they dessiminated false news reports to the American press makes anything coming out of there suspect.

Altho the stories of military heroism are obviously true, the piece seems to be part of a concerted propaganda effort by the US military to portray civilian casualties as low in the battle for Fallajah, and there is good evidence this was planned in advance. The first thing the Marines did was to capture the hospitals, so civilian casuality figures could not be reported by doctors and civilian authorities, shutting down an info leak that had just hurt them when the Iraqi Health Ministry had released hospital casualty figures the week before, for Iraq as a whole, showing that the US was responsible for more civilian dead than the terrorists. In addition, they barred the Red Cross and the Red Crescent from entering the city. Fallujah is not a small village. It was, and I do mean was, a city of 300,000 people, and we flattened place. The civilian casualities must have been horrendous. There are numerous reports in the international press, including the British press, that we used napalm, a weapon currently prohibited by international treaties, and a barbaric act if used on areas where civilians are known to be. Just to get the other side:

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F0A47D67-7D17-4140-A992-2AEC1CF0624A.htm