Sorry about the "associated the Marines" thing. I may have provoked this by taking OUT language tending to endorse the view of Bush opponents that US troops committed atrocities in Fallujah.
 
Anti-US activists said Americans "opened fire" on unarmed civilians. Two US colonels said, no, we "shot back" and it's a real shame if any unarmed Iraqi demonstrators were hit in the crossfire betweend armed insurgents and occupation forces.
 
(Wasn't there a movie called Rules of Engagment with a plot EXACTLY like this? Who says no one watches American movies overseas?)
 
Ed Poor, aka Uncle Ed

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick [mailto:giantsrick13@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 8:15 PM
To: English Wikipedia
Subject: [WikiEN-l] [[Fallujah]]

Several new users with no edit history have suddenly ganged together at the [[Fallujah]] article, demanding some sort of disclaimer that Wikipedia/Bomis is somehow associated with the United States Marine Corps and therefore cannot be neutral in editing such articles as Fallujah.  It's pretty obvious that they're sock puppets for some previously-known User (maybe Bird?) with an axe to grind, but the discussion at [[Talk:Fallujah]] is instructive.
 
RickK, who is not involved in the slightest in the article's editing
 

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