Posted on 08/13/2007 5:05:46 PM PDT by RDTF
On May 31, 2006, the Los Angeles Times editorially bellowed, "What happened at the Iraqi My Lai?" The charge was that on Nov. 19, 2005, the Marines of Kilo Company, Third Battalion, First Marine Regiment, had gone on a killing rampage in the town of Haditha in Anbar province. The rampage was said to be in response to the killing by IED of one of their comrades.
That May, Rep. Murtha, D-Pa., vowed at a press conference an investigation would prove "our troops overreacted because of the pressure on them, and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood."
As the facts have come out, the Haditha incident has been revealed as a media-driven rush to judgment embraced by Democrats to justify their animus toward the war on terror in Iraq. It is a case that, outside of its combat context, eerily resembles the attempted railroading of the Duke lacrosse players.
On Aug. 9 charges were formally dismissed against Lance Cpl. Sharratt, one of the three remaining Marines charged with murder at Haditha. But the charges weren't dropped for lack of evidence.
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Such was the case at Haditha. The charges against Sharratt and his Haditha comrades were spawned by a fallacious and dishonest March 27, 2006, Time magazine story that said they were guilty of "massacring innocent civilians." The story was based on false evidence provided by a known insurgent propagandist.
Time Magazine reporter Tim McGirk had written about how a "budding journalism student" who gave him a video taken after the Marines' alleged rampage.
Except the student was 43-year-old Taher Thabet al-Hadithi, head of a human rights organization whose only other member was Ali Omar Abrahem el-Mashhadani.
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Time magazine would hire Tokyo Rose if she were alive.
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Too bad the military can’t try Tim McGirk!
Seems to me they could even take him out and shoot him.
Only one of them was prosecuted.
None of the Australian, UK and American prisoners who wrote the propaganda were touched.
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Has Murtha apologized yet? Has one reporter called Murtha for a statement? /rhetorical question!
Where’s your apology, Murtha?
You said our troops were guilty in this incident, you tried to make them look out of control and bloodthirsty, you tried to put them down, so they couldn’t get back up and fight the enemy.
Well, you failed, Murtha. We wan’t your aplogy now.
Where’s your apology, Murtha?
You said our troops were guilty in this incident, you tried to make them look out of control and bloodthirsty, you tried to put them down, so they couldn’t get back up and fight the enemy.
Well, you failed, Murtha. We wan’t your aplogy now.
If I remember Dinsmore's testimony correctly, didn't he suggest that the 'white car' info came from these journalists?
It has galled me since this came out about the journalists being tracked, that men who were part of the actual attack on the Marines were also the sources of the charges against the Marines.
That's a bit like taking Patton to court martial because of complaints by propaganda minister, Goebbels, isn't it?
BUMP!
There's some contact information for the media on this thread: Dear Mainstream Media: You and Congressman Murtha must set the record straight.
Makes me to damn mad to read that crapola...murtha is a traitor...
IBDeditorials.com: Marines Innocent, Murtha Guilty
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