Is that this has been planned since last spring. The movement of British soldiers into the south Baghdad area, and the deliberatly slow shutdown of all roads and access into Fallujah, indicates this has been underway.
The Iraqi army has been training and growing for awhile. The small incursions and skirmishes so far ahve been, imho, training excercises for what is likely going to be Custer's last stand with the terrorists playing Custer to our Indians. We have allowed them to concentrate very heavily into the area, yet they have done nothing to actually prepare for what we can deliver.
The interesting question for me is what kind of game in depth will we play after Fallujah, to sweep the board of baathists, alqaeda, and various creeps?
Ed