17 July 2004
Use a bigger bomb
“I ask US President (George W.) Bush to withdraw from Iraq or else Ramadi will become a graveyard for US soldiers,” declared Sheikh Akram Ubayed Furaih at weekly prayers in the city, 100 kilometres (60 miles) west of Baghdad.
Wouldn’t it be simpler and easier for us to erase Ramadi with bombers and long range artillery instead? I mean, Syria did it in Hama and no one in Arabia seemed to mind.