Royal Marines Bring Freedom !
ArKLyte
MARINES BRING FREEDOM
12:00 - 26 March 2003
They lined the flooded streets of mud and waste, a thousand faces and
smiles peering from every crevice, corner and crack in the wall.
These were scenes of joy and happiness as the Royal Marines entered
the port with gifts to win the hearts and minds of the local people.
Grey-bearded men wore guarded smiles and children sprinted barefoot
through stinking puddles to reach the British troops.
"We welcome you," shouted one man. "We welcome freedom."
Umm Qasr, on Iraq's southern coast, was once a thriving town, the
largest port in a province known as the Venice of the East. Today it
is a slum, a crumbling, featureless expanse of litter, dirt and
desperate squalor.
"We have no electricity, no food, no water and no medicine," said
Mohammed, 24. "You must stay, you must stay and help."
The women were wrapped in black chadoors, only their bright, dark eyes
and grinning lips peeking through.
They waved, then blushed as troops waved back.
The children, clothed in a colourful, patterned mix of jumpers, shirts
and jackets, reached fever pitch, hailing every uniformed man.
"Mister, Mister" they yelled as they prodded the soldiers and told
them their names.
Chasing the "Britani" they then turned their thumbs down and uttered
the dangerous word, "Saddam". Ali, a 33-year-old with four brothers
and a multitude of children grabbing up at his green jacket, said the
troops had their support.
"Everyone here is one family and they need help," he said. "We all
want to thank Mr Blair and Mr Bush for being brave men to destroy this
regime. We are so happy, so happy."
Others were less forthcoming, warning danger still looms. Joseph, an
Arabic interpreter attached to 42 Commando carrying out the aid
mission, said: "Many of the older men are still worried. Time is of
the essence - we need to get out there with them fast. They love us,
but they are scared."
The interpreter explained many of the older men are qualified doctors
and surgeons who cannot work under the regime because they are Shia
Muslims.
Another tiny dark-haired girl beamed a smile as she ran towards a
soldier to gather a parcel from a Marine. She wrapped it in her arms,
barely able to link her hands around it, and the yellow glow of the
parcel lit up her pale face. Perhaps in 30 years' time the little girl
will remember the man with the gun and that bright yellow parcel as
the beginnin
g of a new Iraq.
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"Ah yes, we must mollify angry fanatics who seek our destruction
because otherwise .. they might get mad and seek our destruction."
- Ann Coulter 9/26/2002
SNSP
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ArKLyte
>Iraquis will shoot the Marines in the back.
>
>Scottish National Socialist Party
I thought you commies were all dead.
Heretic
"ArKLyte" <ArK...@SHOCKnAWE.COM> wrote in message
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 13:36:19 -0000, "SNSP" <d.al...@whsmithnet.co.uk>
wrote:
>
> >Iraquis will shoot the Marines in the back.
> >
> >Scottish National Socialist Party
>
> I thought you commies were all dead.
>
>
never heard of.
Don Swayser
Nazi = Communist. They're kissing cousins. Care to debate it? :)
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