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<DIV><SPAN class=367294115-30042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>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. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=367294115-30042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>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. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=367294115-30042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>(Wasn't there a movie called Rules of Engagment with a plot EXACTLY like
this? Who says no one watches American movies overseas?)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=367294115-30042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Ed
Poor, aka Uncle
Ed</FONT></SPAN></DIV><!-- Converted from text/rtf format --><BR>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Rick
[mailto:giantsrick13@yahoo.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 29, 2004 8:15
PM<BR><B>To:</B> English Wikipedia<BR><B>Subject:</B> [WikiEN-l]
[[Fallujah]]<BR><BR></FONT></P>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>RickK, who is not involved in the slightest in the article's
editing</DIV>
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