This is how we do it

[Shaffer]

A U.S. Marine replaces the Iraqi flag at the entrance to Iraq's main port of Umm Qasr on March 21, 2003 with the Stars and Stripes and the flag of the Marine Corps. Marines briefly raised the U.S. flag over Umm Qasr after facing tougher than expected resistance in and around the southern Iraq port. Some time later, the flag was removed. No reason was given for the decision, but Washington has consistently stressed that invading U.S. forces want to liberate Iraq, not occupy it.

[criggleman]

They made them take it down.




SAEPE EXPERTUS, SEMPER FIDELIS, FRATRES AETERNI
"Often Tested, Always Faithful, Brothers Forever"

[Barrio_rat]

Originally posted by criggleman
They made them take it down.

Sometimes discresion is the better part of valor... semantics are, we are not conquering Iraq, we are liberating it. Though, the Marines were ordered to take the flag down... yet, before that, they took the initiative and raised it - then, to ensure that there'd be no mistaking who put it up, they add the USMC flag. The picture has been taken, that's the one people will see and remember - I doubt if anyone took a picture of the top of the building with the American flag removed.