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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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1 posted on 11/14/2004 10:32:36 PM PST by Minus_The_Bear
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To: JBlain; nopardons; Travis McGee; Grampa Dave

NEVER FORGET


2 posted on 11/14/2004 10:35:40 PM PST by risk
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To: JBlain

May Kos never live it down


3 posted on 11/14/2004 10:35:42 PM PST by GeronL (http://images7.fotki.com/v125/photos/2/215708/780411/reow-vi.jpg?1100155138)
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To: JBlain
LOVE THOSE MARINES!!!

4 posted on 11/14/2004 10:35:51 PM PST by luvie (WE DID NOT WAVER; WE DID NOT TIRE; WE DID NOT FALTER; AND WE DID NOT FAIL!! GWB WON!!!)
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To: GeronL

Bump


5 posted on 11/14/2004 10:38:42 PM PST by jokar (On line data base http://www.trackingthethreat.com/db/index.htm)
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To: JBlain

here's a dumber question from a civillian, but who can tell me what Semper Fi means? I know Freepers can help me on this.


6 posted on 11/14/2004 10:39:30 PM PST by Wonderama ("America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy"....John Updike)
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To: JBlain

Rolling, rolling, rolling....keep those tanks a rolling, hoo-ya!


7 posted on 11/14/2004 10:40:53 PM PST by ApesForEvolution ("We trust [RINO-BORKING-ABORTER] Sen. Arlen spRectum's word" - "IF spRectum gets the Chair, IF")
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To: JBlain

Found this on Wayback machine. Poke around a little and you may find anythig you want on there.

http://web.archive.org/web/20040402151411/http://www.dailykos.com/

Mercenaries, war, and my childhood
by kos
Fri Apr 2nd, 2004 at 17:57:39 GMT

There's been much ado about my indifference to the Mercenary deaths in Falluja a couple days ago. I wrote in some diary comments somewhere that "I felt nothing" and "screw them".

My language was harsh, and, in reality, not true. Fact is, I did feel something. That's why I was so angry.

I was angry that five soldiers -- the real heroes in my mind -- were killed the same day and got far lower billing in the newscasts. I was angry that 51 American soldiers paid the ultimate price for Bush's folly in Iraq in March alone. I was angry that these mercenaries make more in a day than our brave men and women in uniform make in an entire month. I was angry that the US is funding private armies, paying them $30,000 per soldier, per month, while the Bush administration tries to cut our soldiers' hazard pay. I was angry that these mercenaries would leave their wives and children behind to enter a war zone on their own violition.

So I struck back.

Unlike the vast majority of people in this country, I actually grew up in a war zone. I witnessed communist guerillas execute students accused of being government collaborators. I was 8 years old, and I remember stepping over a dead body, warm blood flowing from a fresh wound. Dodging bullets while at market. I lived in the midsts of hate the likes of which most of you will never understand (Clinton and Bush hatred is nothing compared to that generated when people kill each other for politics or race or nationality). There's no way I could ever describe the ways this experience colors my worldview.

Back to Iraq, our men and women in uniform are there under orders, trying to make the best of an impossible situation. The war is not their fault, and I will always defend their honor and bravery to the end of my days. But the mercenary is a whole different deal. They willingly enter a war zone, and do so because of the paycheck. They're not there for humanitarian reasons (I doubt they'd donate half their paycheck to the Red Cross or whatever). They're there because the money is DAMN good. They answer to no one except their CEO. They are dangerous, hence international efforts (however fruitless they may be) to ban their use.

So not only was I wrong to say I felt nothing over their deaths, I was lying. I felt way too much. Nobody deserves to die. But in the greater scheme of things, there are a lot of greater tragedies going on in Iraq (51 last month, plus countless civilians and Iraqi police). That those tragedies are essentially ignored these days is, ultimately, the greatest tragedy of all.


8 posted on 11/14/2004 10:41:03 PM PST by BookaT (My Cat's Breath smells like Cat Food!)
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To: Wonderama
"here's a dumber question from a civillian, but who can tell me what Semper Fi means? I know Freepers can help me on this."

Always Faithful

9 posted on 11/14/2004 10:41:11 PM PST by intolerancewillNOTbetolerated (I suck at my current job, so PROMOTE me. - Peter-Principle Kerry)
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To: Wonderama
It's short for Semper Fidelis; Always Faithful.
10 posted on 11/14/2004 10:41:26 PM PST by risk
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To: StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; DKNY; ...
ping!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my ‘miscellaneous’ ping list.

11 posted on 11/14/2004 10:41:31 PM PST by nutmeg (THANK YOU RED STATES!!! -- Bush/Cheney 2004)
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To: JBlain

Payback is a female dog.


12 posted on 11/14/2004 10:42:43 PM PST by Miss Behave (There's a WMD hidden in Suha's double chin.)
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To: Wonderama
Always faithful...
13 posted on 11/14/2004 10:43:19 PM PST by ApesForEvolution ("We trust [RINO-BORKING-ABORTER] Sen. Arlen spRectum's word" - "IF spRectum gets the Chair, IF")
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To: Miss Behave

Just getting started. This was just one compound in the continuously compounded interest.


14 posted on 11/14/2004 10:45:14 PM PST by risk
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To: BookaT

Nobody deserves to die.

>>>

LOL

Some people are just destined for ignomy...


15 posted on 11/14/2004 10:45:42 PM PST by ApesForEvolution ("We trust [RINO-BORKING-ABORTER] Sen. Arlen spRectum's word" - "IF spRectum gets the Chair, IF")
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To: risk

We must NEVER forget!


16 posted on 11/14/2004 10:46:29 PM PST by nopardons
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To: JBlain

Love that Post Script!!


17 posted on 11/14/2004 10:46:51 PM PST by elizabetty
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To: JBlain

It is revenge time.


18 posted on 11/14/2004 10:47:53 PM PST by Ptarmigan (Proud rabbit hater and killer)
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To: Wonderama
Semper Fi, short for Semper Fideles, which means always faithful in Latin. It's the motto of the United States Marines.
19 posted on 11/14/2004 10:49:38 PM PST by Wolfstar
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To: Wonderama

here's a dumber question from a civillian, but who can tell me what Semper Fi means? I know Freepers can help me on this.

Thanks for the question. I was wondering about that myself and like you was educated by fellow freepers. I'm sure others are know more knowledgeable too.


20 posted on 11/14/2004 10:52:50 PM PST by winner3000
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