Falluja and Abu Ghraib

This Ray Close guest commentary at "Informed Comment" provides a solid analysis of the recent agreement in Falluja. I wonder if those who argue for a full assault on the city recognize the catastrophic consequences of hundreds more Iraqi dead at the same time the pictures from Abu Ghraib prison are coming out? This isn't April 2003, when we can still plausibly claim to be fighting a war of liberation, but April 2004, when we are fighting for control of a country we are occupying. Iraqification in this case is the only alternative that might solve the Falluja problem without creating worse new ones.

UPDATE: Incidentally, as seen here, everyone pretty much agrees that the Abu Ghraib torturers need to be tried and punished. I would go a step further and say they need to be tried and punished by some Iraqi authorities. That is the only thing that might knit this situation back together.