US graffiti on ancient Babylon's walls

[VegasWolf]

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US soldiers are the latest in a long line of powerful forces visited on ancient Babylon and they have left their mark, in graffiti scratched into walls Saddam added in the hope of joining his predecessors' pantheon.

"Folks come through here and are like, 'Kilroy was here'," says Major David Gilleran, an army chaplain guiding 16 US reservists among the mud-brick walls and shards of cuneiform-inscribed tablets.

Carrying automatic weapons, US soldiers and their foreign allies wa

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Hammurabi, Nebuchadnezzar, Alexander the Great, Saddam Hussien, Sergeant Woods, Rummy and awol.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9FBE8635-BF53-4567-AEE7-69DCEDACF9A5.htm

oops edit for link

[psychopomp]

1. In the great Roman tradition

Well, we know what happened to them.

[Amaya]

2. Spreading American "values"

again

[Southpaw Bookworm]

3. Rah, rah, support the troops

Insolent, ignorant fucks.

[captain jack]

4. Those uniforms don't make them the least bit moral. Idiots.