Everyone needs to spread this far and wide. The 10 Marines killed and more wounded in Fallluja last week were not on “foot patrol” as the Pentagon claimed; they were having a promotion ceremony (which means they were in an area they considered secure and their own). As in the death of Pat Tillman, the Pentagon has tried to bring dishonor and confusiqon to their deaths, which they do not deserve.
The death toll was the largest suffered by U.S. soldiers in Iraq in a single incident since August.
Eleven Marines were wounded in the explosion, which the military initially blamed on “an improvised explosive device (IED) fashioned from several large artillery shells”.
The attack was particularly ill-timed for the Americans, coming just a day after President George W. Bush had given a speech outlining his strategy for Iraq and saying he would settle for “nothing less than complete victory”.
UPDATE: Compare this to the Original story as printed around the world. Something very fishy is going on here. And here is today’s Pentagon version.
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