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.
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."
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?
check the photo
Semper Fidelis = Always Faithful (I think it's in Latin)
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.
What happened to the picture ..??
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"
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.
"Always faithful" in Latin!!
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.
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.'
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.
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=movThe 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."
Excellent.........payback is justified in this ...."war"
Stay Safe Piasa !
http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp/51739842.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=0F88D096635BE440F596E2D4547D8789A9C30E9B9B114CE8
A link to the pic.........awesome !
bttt
We get MAD and EVEN......
Thanks for posting the photos
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