The real story of the Haditha incident is yet to be told.
Time magazine told the Sunni insurgent version. The Washington Post cherry-picked details from the NCIS report to suit their anti-war agenda.
The first Article 32 for a Haditha Marine gets underway in just two weeks and I can only hope the real story of what happened in Haditha will become public.
The truth about Haditha won't change the mind of a single Leftist nitwit. Haditha is their My Lai and they're not letting that go.
But I hope that patriots who support the war will also lend support to the Haditha Marine families. Now is when they need it most.
A massacre doesn't take prisoners.
If I remember correctly, there were more Marines active in Haditha, that day, than just this one convoy that was hit with an IED. So does the prisoner, cash info refer to the whole area, not just this one portion of a neighborhood that was engaged? Either way, Haditha was a hotbed of terrorists, that's why their was an operation underway to clean up the area.
Your reference to My Lai - Last time I checked Google, there were 160,000 hits connecting My Lai to Haditha. I'm sure plenty of these hits were for articles saying they weren't comparable. But what a shame to even have them compared.
It seems like a simple case of a. where they following ROE's for the situation at the time, and b. was their an intentional coverup? The rest is politics.
Thanks for the ping.