Death is Too Good For Them

Here's a link for the CNN story.
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Yesterday my platoon passed by the Al Sadeer Hotel.


We've passed by the Sadeer Hotel several times while on missions. This day was different however, because the day before a minibus packed with explosives pulled up to the checkpoint and detonated, destroying several homes and businesses and killing twelve people. The target was the Sadeer Hotel, which is sometimes used by American contractors. But the stupid bastards couldn't even get through the gate. So instead, they killed a bunch innocent bystanders outside the hotel's fortifications who were just trying to get on with their lives.



Here's a car destroyed by the blast, laying behind a pile of sand brought in to fill the huge hole in the road, apparently.


These are second and third floor apartments that were damaged or destroyed. The hanging metal stuff is leftovers of a billboard. At the bottom, you can see the tops of blast walls that were added after the explosion.


On the first floor, behind the blast wall, there was a business that sold air conditioners, generators, and other appliances. That's all completely destroyed now.


Across the street from the Al Sadeer, this used to be a resturaunt and cafe. Above the cafe, there was a hand-painted sign of a jolly fat man holding a big hunk of meat on a spit. There would frequently be a group of men milling about the front of the cafe, eating and talking.

There's been alot of talk lately about accusations of torture against American soldiers. Now, I'm not saying that I condone torture. I just think that I would really like to torture the guys who put these car bombs together. I mean, a couple weeks ago, a guy drove a car bomb up to a group of soldiers handing out candy to children, killing one soldier and about a dozen kids. I think it would be really nice if we could capture al-Zaquarwi, chain him to the gound, and use him as a human ashtray until he dies. I would extinguish a cigarette, right in his ear. Damn, and I don't even smoke.