Rudder: Yes, this was written for those of us who have been following the Haditha fiasco for the past two years. Try Googling “Justin Sharratt” and “Haditha Marines”. It is an amazing (if disrgaceful) story about a squad of heroic Marines who engaged in battle against insurgents following an IED blast that killed one Marine and seriously injured two others. A naive, overzealous reporter for TIME Magazine was subsequently duped by a couple of insurgent propagandists and the Pentagon and the Bush Administration then caved to liberal pressure and thought they could make the controversy go away if they simply threw a few Marines under the bus. Those cowards were very wrong.
Darryl Sharratt: Excellent post. Thanks for your thoughts.
Thanks. But your reply said nothing about the ‘shadow conspiracy.’ If I have to google your link to follow an article, then the article itself is not sufficiently informative. My critique is not about the Haditha story, but about the deficiencies of this piece-—which stand, despite your defensiveness.
Cowardice and stupidity are sins and faults when one rule a country!
I believed it was specific to liberals.
What sensible person could simply be confident with insurgent sources.
It’s also a fault for reporters who didn’t check their sources...
Very good job!
There would be a nice work to do finding out how this happened