Some excerpts from this NYT story about the “victory” in Fallujah: For a correspondent who has covered a half dozen armed conflicts, including the war in Iraq since its start in March 2003, the fighting seen while traveling with a frontline unit in Falluja was a qualitatively different experience, a leap into a different kind of battle. The price for the Americans so far: 51 dead and 425 wounded, a number that may yet increase but that already exceeds the toll from any battle in the Iraq war. They moved through the city almost entirely on foot, into the heart … Continue reading Truth and Blood in Fallujah