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Well, not totally destroyed -- their corpses still litter the streets of Fallujah, where they are magnets for starving packs of feral dogs and cats who tear ravenously at their rotting flesh.
Even in death, these evildoers continue to threaten the safety and security of the region, as well as the health and welfare of the lucky liberated who wait in refugee camps for permission to return to the smoking rubble of their lives.
Bastards. Because of these evildoers, the Marines have been ordered to hunt down and kill innocent stray animals whose only crime is hunger. Because of them, these animals are contracting and spreading rabies and now they, too, must be destroyed.
And so the Marines of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, who call themselves the "Goon Squad," gather once more in Fallujah. After fresh air assaults over the weekend, Fallujah is a city eerily silent save for the rock-and-roll music blasting from humvee radios and the echo of shots fired at flashes of fur loping among the piles of rubble.
But the Marines' hearts and minds aren't in this particular assignment. This wasn't a part of the video-game exercise wherein they were indoctrinated with bloodlust and trained to shoot insurgents like dogs. Nobody told them they would have to shoot real dogs. The pile of black plastic trash bags heavy with dead animals wasn't part of the deal...
According to Captain Dennis Staggs, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force surgeon, rabies and standing water are immediate health concerns. However, on a bright note he added, "If you consider the entire public health situation, with nobody in town, there's no public health crisis, and if it is prepared correctly there won't be a health crisis..."
Bdeh...bdeh...bdeh...
Lieutenant Aaron Brown said grimly, "This is hard on these guys, especially killing the dogs. But these animals have been eating dead bodies. They can spread disease."
Wonder if it ever occurs to these guys if the black plastic bags contained instead the craven corpses of evil men, women and children insurgents -- if they cleared the Fallujah table of goodies -- that the starving animals might look elsewhere for food?
Nah...
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