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Marines answer the grisly death of Americans on Fallujah bridge...(LGF)
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Posted on 11/14/2004 10:32:36 PM PST by Minus_The_Bear

Edited on 11/14/2004 10:56:31 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

From the bridge where Americans were killed and burned... Marines answer.

From Jeff Harrel's Markos Zuniga of DailyKos.com famously wrote, "I feel nothing about the deaths of mercernaries. They aren’t in Iraq because of orders, or because they are trying to help the people make Iraq abetter place. They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them." Don't go looking for this quote on Markos' site. When the publicity went bad, he obliterated it, airbrushing it right out of history like some kind of Stalinist purge. But some of us remember. Hence, "Markos 'Screw Them' Zuniga."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Unclassified; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: blackwater; bridge; fallujah; iraq; marines; revenge
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To: risk

Thanks for the info. I, like Elizabetty, LOVE the Post Script that they wrote. Go our brave American Bad Asses. No Badder Asses on this planet. Don't mess. Right, risk?


21 posted on 11/14/2004 10:53:42 PM PST by Miss Behave (There's a WMD hidden in Suha's double chin.)
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To: Squantos

check the photo


22 posted on 11/14/2004 10:56:57 PM PST by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: JBlain

This scene looks like a battle during armagedon. It sure has been a tough job and a hell for the US armed force in Falluja.
23 posted on 11/14/2004 10:57:57 PM PST by Wiz
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To: Wonderama

Semper Fidelis = Always Faithful (I think it's in Latin)


24 posted on 11/14/2004 10:58:14 PM PST by CyberAnt (Where are the dem supporters? - try the trash cans in back of the abortion clinics.)
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To: Miss Behave

Right, Miss. Marines have more than a bad mystique, though. They're real people, real patriots. They have families and they really care about people, which is usually how they got the jobs they have. They're independent, but they work together like few teams can. When they die, their families don't get to keep them. They're given back to America when they're buried. No matter how old they are, it hurts. Sometimes you don't know how important they were until years later.


25 posted on 11/14/2004 11:00:31 PM PST by risk
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To: JBlain

What happened to the picture ..??


26 posted on 11/14/2004 11:05:12 PM PST by CyberAnt (Where are the dem supporters? - try the trash cans in back of the abortion clinics.)
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To: Squantos
So much for the photo...

It was a close up photo of what some Marine had inscribed on the infamous bridge in Iraq where the folks from Blackwater were butchered.

I kept a copy on my drive.

Anyway, I copied the text and post script:

"THIS IS FOR THE AMERICANS OF BLACKWATER THAT WERE MURDERED HERE IN 2004. SEMPER FIDELIS [illegible, maybe 5/S?]
PS [****] YOU"

27 posted on 11/14/2004 11:06:13 PM PST by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: JBlain
Copyright restrictions prevent posting the picture from Getty Images, but it shows a riveted I-beam on the side of the bridge. You see the blurry back of a Marine's helmet looking at the inscription. Written on the beam is this:

THIS IS FOR THE AMERICANS OF BLACKWATER
THAT WERE MURDERED HERE IN 2004
SEMPER FIDELIS
3/5
P.S. F*CK YOU

28 posted on 11/14/2004 11:06:34 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: JBlain

The outrage is not that the mercenaries were killed, but that their bodies were mutilated and strung up on the rafters of a bridge.

The enemy did it because the contractors were Americans, not because these particular fighters were mercenaries.

That action encouraged more of our enemies to join the fight against US in Iraq. That we did not respond immediately and with overwhelming force had made our enemies bold. So it was necesary that we punish the enemy for their desecration of those bodies.

There is also some satisfaction to be had in punishing our enemies that kill any Americans.


29 posted on 11/14/2004 11:09:36 PM PST by Sixgun Symphony
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To: Wonderama

"Always faithful" in Latin!!


30 posted on 11/14/2004 11:11:11 PM PST by American_4_Ever (America; Land Of Freedom and Oppurtunity. If you don't like it here, then get the hell out!)
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To: FreedomCalls; All
Here's an AP (Yahoo News) picture of the Marine writing it!

Looks like he had second thoughts and scribbled out the P.S. and wrote something else instead above it. I can't make it out.

31 posted on 11/14/2004 11:14:29 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: FreedomCalls
Found it. The caption says he is writing "DARK HORSE" above the P.S.

A US Marine of the 1st Division writes the words 'Dark Horse' on a beam of the bridge western Fallujah, Iraq, where the bodies of two American contractors killed by militants were strung up in March, sparking the earlier U.S. siege, Sunday, Nov. 14, 2004. An earlier message left by soldiers reads: 'This is for the Americans of Blackwater that were murdered here in 2004, Semper Fidelis 3/5.'


32 posted on 11/14/2004 11:17:28 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: Wiz
Thank God we have men like this to defend us.I couldn't imagine what things would be like if we had a military full of men like John Genjus Kerry.If that were the case this picture would show the soldiers running away as if there were swarms of enemy but instead there would be an old lady with a broom chasing them.I guess the reason why France is so weak is because they are full of the Kerry stock over there.
33 posted on 11/14/2004 11:21:07 PM PST by rdcorso (Did I mention I was in Vietnam where I lost my backbone? Spineless John)
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To: risk

Risk, thank you for your post. I'm off to bed now, and will think a great deal about what you said. I know someone whose little brother (a Marine) was killed in Fallujah last week. David Caruso from Naperville, Illinois. God rest his soul, and God watch over his loving family. What a tragedy beyond belief. It's very hard for me to think about without crying.


34 posted on 11/14/2004 11:24:45 PM PST by Miss Behave (There's a WMD hidden in Suha's double chin.)
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To: JBlain
Here's a sickening sample of the regular news programming most of the Muslim world sees everyday:

http://www.worldlinktv.org/mosaic/streamsArchive/streamPop.php4?caller=http://www.archive.org/download&prefix=Mosaic20041001&name=Mosaic20041001&filetype=mov

The war against terror is not going to be easy. Especially when most of the Arab/Muslim civilians regard hooded murderers who our troops kill as "martyrs."

35 posted on 11/14/2004 11:32:21 PM PST by ppaul
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To: piasa

Excellent.........payback is justified in this ...."war"

Stay Safe Piasa !


36 posted on 11/14/2004 11:36:00 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: piasa; Travis McGee; wardaddy; SLB; Jeff Head

http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp/51739842.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=0F88D096635BE440F596E2D4547D8789A9C30E9B9B114CE8


A link to the pic.........awesome !


37 posted on 11/14/2004 11:43:38 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: nutmeg

bttt


38 posted on 11/15/2004 12:12:10 AM PST by lainde
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To: JBlain

We get MAD and EVEN......


39 posted on 11/15/2004 12:26:50 AM PST by Route101
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To: FreedomCalls

Thanks for posting the photos


40 posted on 11/15/2004 12:30:46 AM PST by dennisw (G_D - against Amelek for all generations.)
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