In addition to the hundreds of Iraqis killed, at least eight Marines died
US marines performed an abrupt U-turn today and prepared to hand the siege city of Fallujah over to an Iraqi army led by one of Saddam Hussein�s top generals.
The move was made on a day when ten more US soldiers were killed in Iraq - bringing the month�s death toll to 126.
After the tentative deal was announced in Fallujah, marines and guerrillas skirmished, with blasts and sporadic gunfire heard from the northern part of the Sunni city.
The Fallujah agreement, which was still being finalised tonight, came after intense international pressure on the United States to find a peaceful solution to the stand-off that killed hundreds of Iraqis in the Sunni city.
Ireland Online Apr.29.04
I think they keep counting all the dead people because it's like a sports score. It's as close as they can bring it to a sports score.
Even though both teams don't have an equal number of players; so that killing thousands of Americans isn't the same as killing thousands of Iraqis. But for the audience, for the spectators, it's all they can process - the morality is meaningless to them, it's a contest, it's about winning and losing.
The right and wrong is only at the beginning, to start the game you have to have that; but once it starts it's no longer about right and wrong, it's only about winning and losing, and that means you need a score, and that means you need numbers.
