The Dead Of Fallujah

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[William McKinley]

The Dead Of Fallujah

Three of the four victims of the atrocity in Fallujah have been identified:

Scott Helvenston, 38, was a former member of the US Navy SEALs who joined at the age of 17 and served until 1994. He then became a fitness instructor and actor, appearing in such films as GI Jane and Face/Off. He was the father of two sons, one 15, the other 13. His brother had this to say about Helvenston:

He's a hero. He died supplying food to people who needed it.

Democratic blogger "Kos" had this to say about Helvenston:

I feel nothing over the death of merceneries.

Jerry Zovko, 32, was a veteran of the US Army and a mechanic. He joined the army in 1991 at the age of 19 and served with the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. His mother, Donna Zovko, had this to say about him:

Jerry was a man with a principle, an idea. He loved people. He wanted the world to be without borders, for everybody to be free and safe.

Democratic blogger "Kos" had this to say about Zovko and his associates:

They aren't in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for profit.

Mike Teague, 38, was a member of the US Army, earning a Bronze Star in Afghanistan. He also served in Panama and Grenada. His wife, Rhonda Teague, had this to say about him:

Mike was a proud father, soldier, and American. I, his son Brandon, and his friends and family will miss him without measure.

Democratic blogger "Kos" had this message for the families of the slain:

Screw them.

The three individuals pictured here, and the one unnamed victim, killed in Fallujah, killed by a mass of people they were trying to help, were examples of the best of this country. They wore many hats: soldier, patriot, father, husband, brother, son. They were mechanics and sports fans, actors and athletes, soldiers and sailors. They gave their lives in the highest pursuit known to man - selflessly going into the face of grave danger to help their common man.

And "Kos" feels the need to spit on their graves.

So much for that much vaunted liberal "compassion."

Spoons suggests dropping The Daily Kos from blogrolls in protest. I agree entirely...

Michael Friedman has a list of Kos advertisers running political campaigns. Writing letters of disgust to them would be entirely appropriate - campaigning against them would be even better. (UPDATE: Both Joe Donnelly and Martin Frost have pulled their ads from The Daily Kos.)

Memorials to the victims of this atrocity can be sent here:

Memorial Fund
PO Box 159
Moyock, NC 27958

[Eva]

My husband was considering it. He is about ready to retire, another three years and was thinking that if he could make considerably more money in Iraq, he might just retire early and give it a try. He's a Port Captain for an oil tanker company and thought that maybe they could use him. I don't think that he's seriously considering it any more.

[atomic conspiracy]

The fact is you and others have used the broad connotations of the word "mercenary" to justify this barbarous atrocity. Many of these connotations are not applicable to these men, yet it is these irrelevant connotations, and those alone, that support your obscene endorsement of this atrocity.

This is a tiresome and time-dishonored rhetorical method of murder apologists; Joseph Goebbels especially favored it.

Markos Zuniga ("Kos") presumed to know the motives of these men, what they intended to do with their money, and the motives of the Fallujah mob, and he is so arrogant that he assigns the penalty of death and mutilation on the basis of these self-serving clairvoyant delusions.

You've shown your true colors. Now, SCREW YOU, tool.

[LibKill]

What I would do in response, even Ghengis Khan would not do.

[William McKinley]

They were providing security to those bringing the people water and other services.

I'm going to hit abuse on you, because you don't belong here.

But ask for your post to come down? Hardly. I hope you, and people like you, are even more visible than you are now. You all need to show your faces, be loud, be vocal.

Our country needs to see you and those like you for who you are and what you believe.

[Brian Allen]

<< Monsters. They're freaking monsters.
We have their faces. Now we need to get their asses.

On our terms.... >>

Not 'need to' -- MUST!

And the bloody bridge the barbaric bastards used to hang our countrymen's corpses MUST be vaporized.

Let the world understand -- as the Japanese and Germans and former Soviets most assuredly do -- that the klintons and kartahs in our midst and but tolerated by us are also but passing aberations -- and that Intact American Men are back again in our nation's executive suites -- and are again in charge of the world.

[atomic conspiracy]

I havent seen mentioned what the pay scale was for these private contractors.Was it the equivilant of the E3,4,5 and 6"s they worked with side bye side?

$500.00 a day. That's a lot of money, and considerably more than I made as a light colonel in DS-1(let alone as a W-1 in Vietnam), but probably not as much as Markos "Kos" Zuniga and other media elite terror-tools make from their incitement and treason.

[livius]

Scott Helvenston was from Jacksonville and had lived in my town (Gainesville) as a teenager. It's a pity Gainesville has such a left-wing, NYT paper, or there'd be more feeling about this here.

I haven't heard anything about the fourth contractor. Initial reports said one of the dead was a woman with blond hair; I suppose she may have been the fourth one. (However, it's quite possible that this was an error either in the reporting or the translation.)

[HitmanLV]

Censeo Fallujainem esse delendam.

[atomic conspiracy]

Markos "Kos" Zuniga (r)

[atomic conspiracy]

Zuniga again. (not the greatest photoshop, but probably better than I could do)

[Doc On The Bay]

The "Ernie Pyle" quote is--BY FAR-- the Most compelling statement about America I have EVER SEEN!!

Doc

[harpo11]

The Cost of Freedom is Paid by Brave and Courageous Men and Women
Who Risk and Sacrifice Their Lives
So That We Remain Free
God Bless These Brave Men
May Their Children's Tears Be Comforted by Our Deepest and Lasting Gratitude

[dougherty]

OMG, I had not seen some of those photos. I felt sick just looking at them. It's bad enough to see the dead desecrated in such a manner, but the smiling faces are surely the faces of pure evil. This evil needs to be stamped out, the only thing these subhuman savages understand is force and I hope when it comes they spend their last moments in complete terror.

[PsyOp]

The "Ernie Pyle" quote is...

I'd have to agree.

[Senormechanico]

If you get a chance, let me know. I'll help, if I can contain my laughter at the sight of the carnage.

Seriously.

SM