11/15/2004: Marine's bridge message
 

http://cellar.org/2004/bridgemessage.jpg

One of the first things the Marines did in Fallujah was to take the two bridges across the river - one of which was the imfamous bridge where the dead bodies of two American contractors were strung up.

This Marine knew that, and so he's written a message there, which you can see at this link, a watermarked Getty image that I won't steal for here:

http://editorial.gettyimages.com/sou...x?iid=51739842

"This is for the Americans of Blackwater that were murdered here in 2004, Semper Fidelis 3/5"

And under that

"P.S. Fuck You"

(The 3/5 is because he's in the 3/5 Lima Company of the Marines.)

But in the above image he's blacked over the "PS Fuck You" and is posting another P.S., which you make out here: "Dark Horse". I guess that's his nom de guerre.

Poppycock, our Marines don't use bad language. :lol2:

Maybe once the Iraqis have their country back, someone will come back to that bridge and write:

"This is for the 100,000 Iraqi civilians murdered in this country over the last 2 years. Allahu akbar. PS, Fuck You".

Wouldn't they have to be able to write first?

or

Wouldn't they have to put their machete down first?

or

hmmm, let me think of a few more, I'll be back.

How about if they thank us for not letting Saddam fill the mass graves with another 300,00 or so. There are nowhere near 100,00 innocent deaths in Iraq.

Graffiti!! Vandalism! No respect for other people's property, I tell ya...

By the last count there were more than 100,000.

If by "last count" you mean researchers pulled it out of their ass a few days before the election.

What else can you do when there's no official count? Somebody should try to figure it out, using whatever means and accuracy are available.

Regardless of what the actual number is, the real question is, how many of those deaths are actually *innocent* civilians?

What else can you do? Well shit man; this is the Internet era; find the highest figure you can and trumpet it to the land. Let every echo chamber ring!

Just don't call that approach "reality-based".

The highest figure would have been 194000.

Let it ring.

Wipe it off, first.

Well fill us in then UT, what's the real number?