Posted on 08/24/2007 12:56:10 PM PDT by RedRover
Well said, Ma!
The one thing that we do know is that a twelve year old girl knew the IED was going to explode because she admitted it. That tells me that every person in that area knew the same thing and not one of them did a thing to warn the Marines.
That has not been addressed in the hearings that I have heard. It has also not been addressed by Fat Jack Murtha and he’s the one that purported to know all the facts before those facts had been investigated.
Fat Jack Murtha is ignoring these hearings and is hiding under his desk, just like the coward he is. I can only assume that Lt. Gen. Mattis and Lt. Col. Ware are fully aware of this and have no respect for him, they certainly haven’t shown it as yet by the rulings they’ve made. I don’t think their going to change those views in the balance of the hearings because they’re both Marines.
Thanks jaz. I try to keep my mouth shut. But smooth just makes me hot and then I blow.
Might as well ping lily to this one. She’ll appreciate it.
The crazy train has left the station for the last stop.
Thanks for the ping and it is going to be OK.
What's bugging me about this is Col. Ware's odd statement. I don't like it. I hope to God I'm wrong, but it's as if Sgt. Wuterich is being set up as the fall guy for murtha's sorry ass. And set up by Ware.
Sgt. Wuterich is the squad leader, everything he did that day makes sense to me. The bottom line, he got his men out of that hell hole alive.
All hell will fly in me if you’re right, smooth.
Ware wrote: “It is only in hindsight that we can start to question why SSgt Wuterich was firing his weapon at children..
If Ware can only state that we can question in hindsight, then
he damn well can’t DARE question Wuterich in the heat of battle.
I have to be wrong.
It is only in hindsight that we can start to question why SSgt Wuterich was firing his weapon at children..
Hindsight, that's what I missed on first read! Ware is sending a message there.Damn me for doubting him. Thanks for straightening me out, Ma.
I didn’t mean I’d be mad at you, smooth! I love you!
I sure don’t want to have an epitaph to Ware on my tombstone.
I know, and I love you too!
I just didn't think it through before my original post, and now I'm mad at me.
As if proving something isn't necessary when we all know the truth already.
I'm afraid this could be line that Murtha takes. He has too much invested in a massacre. I just can't imagine he'd ever admit he was wrong. He's just not man enough to do it.
THanks for the post. Good call.
Ping-a-ling!
You're right, Red.
Of his own volition, he will never admit he is wrong.
But he is, at his core, a cowardly man.
If we keep the pressure on him AND his protectors, THEY will ultimately buckle.
His protectors will abandon him, and he will stand alone.
That's the day he crumbles, that's a day we work towards.
Goddamn right.
I don’t think Murtha ever realized just how intensely people like us are committed to bringing him down.
E-mail to you. Night, pal.
You’re welcome, spunkets!
I can see why LtCol Ware "recommended" that the government either charge this Marine or give him testimonial immunity.
BTW, someone mentioned to me today that Ware once had a reputation as being the toughest prosecutor in the Marine Corps--and that's why he got the job as the IO in the Haditha case.
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