CAPTION: Marines Deliver food to Iraqi girl

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040415/481/jbm10304151836 ^ | 4-15-04 | John Moore

[OXENinFLA]

An Iraqi girl answers the door when U.S. Marines arrive to deliver food in a virtually abandoned area of Fallujah, Iraq (news - web sites), Thursday, April 15, 2004. Marines and Iraqi insurgents have frequently clashed in the neighborhood in the last week and a number of families remain holed-up in their houses.(AP Photo/John Moore)

[OXENinFLA]

This is not meant to be a HA-HA caption, I think this is a VERY underreported story and need to be told to all.

[OXENinFLA]

GNFI

PING........................

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[17th Miss Regt]

It is a great story. On the other hand,

Tom Daschle is deeply saddened.

[cripplecreek]

First you kill the infection, then you win the hearts and minds of the people.

[alpha-8-25-02]

GODSPEED MARINES
SEMPER FI
you are doing the Lord's will.

[Little Ray]

They should be starving Fallujah, not feeding it.

[rhombus]

Is she wearing a Cami head scarf?

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

What you aren't hearing from the mainstream press (imho, THEY are committing war crimes and getting our troops killed with their dangerous, misleading misreporting):

"Yesterday in Al Kharma, near Fallujah, a significant number of anti-Iraqi forces assaulted defensive Marine positions close to a residential neighborhood. Marines repelled the assault, with lethal, accurate fire. When the fighting ended, residents came outside and told the Marines that the fighters had moved into their homes recently, virtually holding them hostage. The residents were able to then move about freely in their own neighborhood and beyond." ~ CJTF-7, April 15, 2004 

 

Thank you, OXEN. YES, the story should be told.

[LadyPilgrim]

Does she have a 'camo' scarf on her head?

[LadyPilgrim]

You beat me to it.

[madison10]

Looks like it to me. Why would she have a camo scarf? New hot fashion item in Fallujah?

[Gringo1]

I'm sure at Al-Jazeera and DU they will report that the girl was gang-raped and killed, rather than given food.

Or that this was the Girl that Lcpl Budreux "knocked up" and got CAIR all bunched up in the panties.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Just as long as Lcpl. Boudreaux doesn't handle the captioning.

[LadyPilgrim]

while appreciating the photo, I can't tell exactly what's on her mind. And looks as if someone else is next to her reaching out to our soldiers.

[savedbygrace]

The people who say, "I'm against the war, but I support the troops," are proven to be liars because they DO NOT talk about all the great things our troops are doing to rebuild Iraq and help the people.

This message needs to be pounded home every time you hear someone say that. Ask them, "Why don't I hear you telling about all the great things the troops, who you CLAIM to support, are doing for the people of Iraq?" (If you feel bold, you might say, "You don't want to mention this good news, because you don't want President Bush to get any credit for it. You like to claim that President Bush lied to get us into the war, but then you tell your own bald-faced lie when you say that you support the troops. If you supported the troops, you would be quick to tell about all the good things the they're doing in Iraq.")

[madison10]

She looks apprehensive. Our guys probably look overbearing even when handing out food.

[Vic3O3]

Semper Fi, Marines!

[Esther Ruth]

All she needs to do is look into the eyes of an American and she will see a difference, the difference, between freedom and oppression and fear. She will see something so different and know that what we have in America and what we are bringing them is SO good! The eyes say so much, she is searching in them for something she can place her hope in!

[Physicist]

"Hi, we're making a delivery for 'Meals on Treads'."

[chambley1]

"Hello, sorry for breaking you away from CNN where they're telling the world Saddam fed you more than propaganda, but here's some Pop Tarts to chew on while CNN tells you you're starving."

[Spruce]

USMC
No better friend
No worse enemy

[Arkinsaw]

They should be starving Fallujah, not feeding it.

I'm not really in favor of starving little kids to save them.

[MissAmericanPie]

Never mind the granade under her sweet little pillow.

[Little Ray]

I'm not in favor of saving them.
War has consequences. Allowing enemies to hide among has consequences. Why should soldiers risk their lives to deliver food to two-faced ingrates?

[wjcsux]

USMC
No better friend
No worse enemy

I suspect this little girl is somewhat apprensive given the propaganda she has been spoon fed all of her young life.

[Frunabulax]

"Is that a terrorist hiding in your skirts, ma'am, or are you just glad to see us?"

[An Old Man]

"I'm not in favor of saving them. "

It's a damn good thing you are not in charge.

Semper Fi

[Arkinsaw]

I'm not in favor of saving them.

Brilliant.

[runningbear]

"An Iraqi girl answers the door when "?? Should be an Iraqi female, or female adult?

[tiamat]

Esther Ruth, you are wise.

I think you are right.

That child is SCARED, but is daring to look, daring to hope!

[tiamat]

Arkinsaw wrote:



I'm not really in favor of starving little kids to save them.

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Thank you!

;-)

[bandleader]

No Kidding!You don't really expect The Majors to report this kind of thing,do you??????????????

[Redleg Duke]

If you are going to make statements like that, would you kindly remove any references on your homepage to the US Army and the NRA. The rest of us affiliated with those fine organizations don't like it smeared with your inept comments!

Thanks in advance!

[SuziQ]

USMC
No better friend
No worse enemy

I like that!

[SuziQ]

"An Iraqi girl answers the door when "?? Should be an Iraqi female, or female adult?

If you look at the photo, you'll see that there is someone to the right of the little girl, obscured from our view by the soldier on the left side of the picture. You can see that person's hands.

[firewalk]

Thanks for the ping

[Little Ray]

Don't want to kill 'em all. Want them, for generations to come, to soil themselves when they hear jet noise or see something that looks like an Western military uniform. Want Americans and Brits and Poles and Italians, etc., to replace the Djinn, and Ifrits in their folklore for objects of fear and terror.
I am probably wrong, but that seems like it has more potential than being nice to 'em.
We owe our people, fellow Americans, even Liberals, that sort of concern - due process, etc. We do not owe the Iraqis these things. This is a stupid way to fight a war and deal with the people who aid and abet and shield them.

[CyberAnt]

I don't have a caption - but my comment is .. I thought we were killing women and children ..??

But .. these people had an opportunity to leave - why wouldn't they ..??

[Little Ray]

I stand by remarks and my membership in the organizations mentioned (if not always my grammar and spelling...)

Glad I'm not in charge, too. I wouldn't want the lives of valiant young men on my conscience, just 'cause I was worried 'bout "world opinion" instead of getting the fight over and done with (and making certain it didn't bite us on the @$$ in 5, 10 or 40 years).

The Army and USMC are there to kill people and break things - and there are a lot folks over there needin' killing. Our leaders are ordering our troops to risk their lives to feed and water the very folks who, if not actually opposing them, are probably shielding and aiding our enemies. It is a nice gesture, but a really, really stupid policy. If I am not mistaken, its how we are arrived at this state in the first place.

The only thing more foolish we could do is to negotiate with them instead of killing them.
But we're doing that, too.

[XHogPilot]

She looks apprehensive.

I'd be apprehensive too if I was meeting a group of foreign guys with machine guns.

[XHogPilot]

No Little Ray, you are wrong. The US military is there to enforce the political will of the government of the United States of America.

"The Army and USMC are there to kill people and break things - and there are a lot folks over there needin' killing." Little Ray

[Arkinsaw]

and there are a lot folks over there needin' killing.

And there are a lot that do not, like babies and 6 year olds, and women who are essentially slaves. Civilized nations do not harm innocent children when they do not need to do so. Christian nations do not harm innocent children when there is no need to do so. If they do then they deserve a millstone. Its macho to say kill 'em all but not adult.

Our leaders are ordering our troops to risk their lives to feed and water the very folks who, if not actually opposing them, are probably shielding and aiding our enemies.

Probably? We don't starve people because of a "probably" even if it were really "probably". These armed militias, foreign terrorists, and former regime members hide themselves behind civilians and abuse them. Tit for tat on civilian abuse is not something US soldiers seem to have a craving for generally.

[monkeywrench]

Kock, knock---candy gram.

[Little Ray]

Beg to differ. When bombs fall, we may not be aiming at women and children, but they get hit. War on the ground is no different. If the enemy fires at you from the orphanage, the orphans are not your problem; eliminating the enemy and keeping your troops alive is.

When we fight insurgents and terrorists, if the locals don't help us and especially if they help the enemy, they have no business complaining when they get caught in the crossfire or can't get food, water, and medicine. Its not abuse: We don't owe them these things (we don't owe people at HOME these things). Further, providing them with food, etc., doesn't seem to change their loyalties, and it risks the troops' lives unnecessarily.
As I said, being NICE is how we got here in the first place.

[Little Ray]

Ooops. You're exactly right. I stand very corrected.

Though using 'em as meals on treads, civil engineers, and construction crews strikes me as strange way to use the military.
Still it worked for Roman Legions.

[Arkinsaw]

Extraordinarily simplistic view of the world. I'm grateful that our troops, when asked, consistently say that they are there to help innocent Iraqis have a chance at a real life. Very glad that your view is a minority.

[Little Ray]

Yes it is simplistic. Clausewitz once wrote something to the effect that, in war, everything is very simple. Its just that, during wartime, even simple things things become very difficult.

Perhaps, the best way to help innocent Iraqis is get rid of the guilty ones, along with the Syrians, Iranians, Egyptians, Saudis, Chechnyans, Palis, etc., they hang with? As quickly as possible?
Please keep in mind that Fallujah is in the Sunni triangle and is one of the cities the benefited most from Saddam's rule. Innocent Iraqis might be very few and far between there.

However, that part about being there to "help innocent Iraqis" sounds pretty suspicious to me. As a former soldier, I would be GLAD to help the innocent Iraqis, but that is not what I would be there for. I was not in Germany in the 1980's to help the Germans, (though I did when I could, and enjoyed their hospitality very much).

[Central_Floridian]

"Freedom is not our own privelege; it is God's gift to the world"
G.W. Bush