Posted on 05/27/2006 9:57:27 AM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
Attorney Paul Hackett in civilian life ran against Jean Schmidt in district near Cincinnati and then went for Senate until, Sherood Brown beat him to oppose Mike Dewine. Hackett claims his own party sabotaged him. Some Dem party activists agreed, saying he is a loose cannon and shoots from the hip. Looks like we are in for a polital mess with former Marine Murtha calling them cold blooded killers and former Marine officer Hackett "defending them" on the case.
It baffles the mind that McCain, Hagel, Graham and Warner are all VETERANS...and yet are the quickest to jump the gun, and assume the worst of our troops.
It boggles my mine that these jackasses in the MSM don't understand that if not for these brave and wonderful troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and other places fighting the Islamo-fascist hordes, that some day soon the fighting would be taking place in cities like L.A. and Washington, DC instead of cities like Haditha.
You're right. Murtha may have slipped a gear.
But the MSM will quote him on almost anything because they view him as key to damagin and ending the war effort.
For lack of a better phrase, he is their Great White Hope. They will hang on everything he says and does.
I think your advice is a very wise one. Here is an article from the (London) Times:
The Marines and a 'massacre' in Iraq
snip:
WITH remarkable self-assurance for a ten-year-old girl, Iman Hassan recounted how her family was killed by American troops as she cowered in terror in a corner of her living room.
It happened soon after 7am on November 19 last year, she claimed in an interview with The Times. She was still in her pyjamas and preparing for school when a US military convoy rumbled down the road near her home in al-Haditha, a town on the Euphrates surrounded by date farms that has become a hotbed of insurgents. Three months earlier 20 American soldiers had been killed there.
Two things to note - the media has found their "spokesperson". Iman Hassan will be the face of this atrocity. Before it is too late I would suggest that the US authorities check that this is not a new Mohammed al-Dura
Note also the insidious (or careless) use of the present tense in the penultimate sentence. It would have been correct to write "a town on the Euphrates surrounded by date farms that was [or had become] a hotbed of insurgents". As the sentence now stands it indicates that the insurgency started after November 19 last year (despite the fact that they relate the fact that 20 Marines had been killed there previously).
It may seem pedantic in the extreme to complain about the tempi in the article, but knowingly or unknowingly this is one way the MSM slants their stories.
A rush to judgement? On FR? Noooooo...whodathunkit!
Over the past year or so, this place has been about nothing other than hyper-critical rushes to judgement.
Does anyone know when the trial wil be held?
"How do we know they weren't getting shot at from the place the bodies were found....OR, the insurgents killed them..and called in their personal videographer..."
That's why we have trials.
Statements from Gen. David M. Brahms this week:
"Recent reporting on the events in Haditha, Iraq have included significant factual errors and/or misleading statements. This includes a quote attributed to me in the Washington Post this morning that was taken completely out of context and its meaning distorted. Many facts that are favorable to the Marines involved have not yet been disclosed."
"The worst thing that can happen in a case of this kind is to have it politicized...that's exactly what has happened here. They're leaking a story which is yet unwritten."
"It's not normal to have a Member of Congress to decide to have hearings, at least while this whole business is in flux."
"I think there has been (a rush to judgement)...This has got to impact the fairness of the procedure."
"We'll get more precise information. Let's kind of step back, let's try to realize that there's another side of this story...People accused may be guys like my son and your brothers."
"The problem is, of course, that everybody's got a political agenda...in the middle are a group of American Marines."
Brahms confirmed what press reports have said, that charges in two investigations-- an NCIS investigation of the incident itself and an Army investigation of whether there was a cover-up of the incident-- are likely to come in mid- to late-June or July, with military justice proceedings in August.
http://hughhewitt.com/archives/2006/05/21-week/index.php#a002287
It appears the Left's idea of fighting a war is bringing an army of $500/hour lawyers to a knife fight.
You may feel it's safe to jump to the conclusion that some speculative commentary that you caught a glimpse of on one of the MSM broadcast TV channels constitutes some kind of reliable sorce of truth. However, it could be about as reliable as Dan Blather was on the Bush/TX Air National Guard deal, Dave!!!
Why would you lurch in the direction of believing this unsubstantiated scenario that could have all been a huge frame-up by the insurgency, for instance? They could have executed those innocents just prior to triggering the device. It's possible.
You gotta ask yourself: Why would you lurch in that direction, Dave??? Why??? Do you WANT it to be true, or something?
I wish you'd stop it cause you're really gittin me pist off behind it!!!
I wondered if the Paul Hackett in the article was THAT Paul Hackett..
Uh-oh...yeah, this guy has an agenda..that agenda is getting himself famous, any way he can.
He was almost worst than 1971 Kerry, when he first was on Hairball..and when running for Rep.
Now, he is playing a different tune???
This guy is a traitor in lawyer's clothing.
I saw a press conference with Duncan Hunter about a week ago...he said that the report was supposed to be filed with the head honcho by this weekend...
It will be read, and also sent to Gen. Chiarelli(sp), who is in Iraq...
Only THEN will they even talk to the people in Congress about this...
He also said they would have hearings...about the "process", but not the possible crime...he said that would be strictly up to the military.
One of the reporters asked him if he wasn't just "setting them up for bad news", (his press conference was the day after Murtha's when Murtha proclaimed that the Marines had killed these civilians "in cold blood")...
Hunter said NO, that he had no reason to know anything at that point, one way or another...but, that the reason he came out to speak about it that day was because in the accusations of Murtha...
Murtha said he KNEW what had happened...that he had been TOLD what was in the final report...Hunter said that as of last week, the report wasn't even completed.
Now...I have told you what I saw...I hope that Hunter was truthful...and nothing was known...rather than just coming out to try to cool things down.
But, I DO know that Murtha has been making very harmful comments about the troops and the war for a long time...so I have NO reason to believe him.
And NO, I don't know anything more than what is on this thread...and what I posted earlier here on this thread from when I originally read about this, back when if first happened.
I'm not 100% sure it is the same person, BUT the Ohio Dem candidate is an attorney and is a former Marine officer who served in Iraq and who is anti-war and highly ambitious and will say anything he has to to get ahead. Ergo a Ramsey Clark defense counsel for one of ours (Ramsey is otherwise engaged defending Saddam). Could be a real cluster. I hope our Marine defendant(s) know with whom they are dealing and in whose hands they have placed their fate. I suspect the whole defense will be our masters turned us into automoton killers and it is not our fault. Of course that won't work.
Also this story line was already used in one of the last episodes of "Bones". A guy like Pat Tillman (albeit an NBA star rather than NFL) went to Iraq, charged into an innocent family's dining room with gun blazing, killed them all. His crew then sets it up like they were all terrorists and the "massacre" was justified. The cover up overwhelmed the participants with guilt. The idea was none of the troops should have been there, they were just reserves and national guard. Not enough training. War is hell. (yada yada).
"Thats why we have trials".
Well, not so much anymore...you have the OJ trial on one hand...
You have the Duke situation on another....where the whole teams was pronounced guilty enough to ruin the season, and the coach quits...and the DNA tests hadn't even come back..
Murtha is going on all of these shows pronouncing these Marines guilty of killing these civilians "in cold blood"...
and, other than Ollie North, when talking to Alan Colmes the other night...I haven't heard any hue and cry for everyone to wait for a trial.
Thanks...good article.
Yes, from your description...it does sound like the Paul Hackett....he sure is a crybaby, for a Marine.
I saw him twice, once crying about Bush and the war, when he was running for the House...
After he was thrown over by the DNC for the Senate race, he was crying about how he was treated by the politcians...
WHAAAAA....
You are right...I cannot imagine any of these Marines wanting that kind of representation...
Murtha is blaming Bush...saying these Marines are "too stressed out" to have kept themselves from doing this "in cold blood" (that kinds of sounds oxymoronic to me)...
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