The battle is over, but is victory one step closer? Is Iraq one battle less? Or has Fallujah been just the beginning? Mosul, Ramadi, Baghdad? Like late Yasser Arafat once said, to the United Nations General Assembly, "Today I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter's gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand." Yasser Arafat could not stop his organisation from fighting, the olive branch fell and Israel and the dream of Palestine seems as far away now as it was then. Will a free Iraq, from dictator and now more importantly, from fear, ever have a chance? Someone get those Marines an olive branch each.