“The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. The Baghdad communiqués are belated, insincere, incomplete. Things have been far worse than we have been told, our administration more bloody and inefficient than the public knows." – T.E. Lawrence, The Sunday Times, August 1920

Fallujah is apparently a symbol of revolution since at least 1920 when the British got took heavy casualties there. Hardly surprising then that it’s now the hotbed of the fight to get America out of Iraq. Here’s a history lesson from In These Times.

In other news, the U.S. are claiming that there are no civilians in Fallujah, which is why they refuse to let the Red Crescent in with humanitarian supplies.