I'm watching Meet the Press from this morning...
GENERAL GEORGE CASEY: I wouldn't categorize [Operation] Swarmer as a major combat operation. It was an operation to go out into an almost uninhabited area. So it was certainly nothing like the operation in Fallujah. I think frankly it got a little more hype than it deserved because of the use of the helicopters to get the Iraqi and the coalition forces there. It might have looked a little more formidable than it actually was.The use of the helicopters? No. I think it was your own press release that's still on the Pentagon Web site stating the following:
Operation Swarmer begins with the largest air assault operation since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom.So, this was the largest assault on empty farmland since the beginning of the war.
They hate us for our farmland.
