Everythings just great in Iraq; well read this and literally weep.

[Fla Dem]

Last Marine in Squad Mourns 11 Friends Killed in Bombing
All but One in Close-Knit Unit Die in Roadside Attack in Iraq
By ANTONIO CASTANEDA, AP

HADITHA DAM, Iraq (Oct. 1) - Cpl. David Kreuter had a new baby boy he'd seen only in photos. Lance Cpl. Michael Cifuentes was counting the days to his wedding. Lance Cpl. Nicholas Bloem had just celebrated his 20th birthday.

Travis Williams remembers them all - all 11 men in his Marine squad - all now dead. Two months ago they shared a cramped room stacked with bunk beds at this base in northwest Iraq, where the Euphrates River rushes by. Now the room has been stripped of several beds, brutal testament that Lance Cpl. Williams' closest friends are gone.

For the 12 young Marines who landed in Iraq early this year, the war was a series of hectic, constant raids into more than a dozen lawless towns in Iraq's most hostile province, Anbar. The pace and the danger bound them together into what they called a second family, even as some began to question whether their raids were making any progress.

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So many bright, promising lives....for what!!!!!

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20051001144209990001&ncid=NWS00010000000001

[malaise]

1. All for a pack of lies

Fugg Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney et al! Oh Fugg Bliar too!

[neweurope]

2. Read this and weep:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4934050


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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[glarius]

3. Not to mention the 100,000 plus Iraqis who have died!

nt

[greblc]

4. Semper Fi