Fallujah Précis
Urbicide and Sociocide
First Battle:
2004 April Operation Vigilant Resolve
2004 March 31 Blackwater Contractors killed
Bodies desecrated
Al Jazeera revealed US atrocities
We used white phosphorus (See DN Nov 2005)
Fallujah became Symbolic of resistance.
Arabs naming their daughters Fallujah
Second Battle:
2004 November Operation Phantom Fury
First militarized propaganda
Linked Fallujah to Al Qaeda
City sacking legitimized by propaganda
Jack Wheeler: Fallujah delanda est
(Said by Cato the Elder of Rome’s sacking of Carthage
Weaponization of information.
With the battle space reaching into the brain.
Manufacturing war consent.
Liberated Fallujah
Books and video American Sniper justified the atrocities
ISIS arose out of Fallujah
Colonel Bacevich: First instantiation of our Middle East policy
American Exceptionalism: since 1776 we have overthrown or invaded 70 countries.
1980 Jan 23 Cater Doctrine
Howard P. Charman, MD
Notes: 2022 April 5th