The more I read about this the more I've come to believe that Muthra and the rest are heading towards an "awf**k" of massive proportions.
First they denied that there was any sort of firefight, then then denied that there were any Marines Killed while saying that Marines simply flew off the handle because one of their own was killed,then they said that everyone was killed excution style, and it was bad real bad.
Here is why they are going to eat their words. This Marine Unit was not operating solo in less then a third of a mile away insurgents ran into a huge firefight on the same day, Let's call the accused unit group A and the firefight unit group B.
After group A was attacked by a IED they dismounted attacked the insurgents, that jives with the reports, the insurgent withdrew through a series of house where they either killed excution style the innocents or they used said innocents as human shield.
Meanwhile group B is called in to behind the insurgents to set up an ambush, some insurgents drop their weapons and try to hightail it out of dodge in a taxi they had place there before hand and are cut down.
Group A drives the remaining insurgents into group B's ambush and in the resulting intense firefight the insurgents (the real murderers) are wiped out.
All signals from this event are recorded, and all the action is within a half a mile radius of the original attack and takes place in three to five hours undrer the watchful electronic eye of a drone sent by the marine commander.
What has taken so long to decide the facts in the case is putting it into a solid argument that will destroy any reasonable doubt from the media about what happened, including video and audio presentations of what really occured.
If these charges are not true, however, Mr. Murtha's political career will not survive. And Ms. Heard will disappear from Free Republic, so her hate-filled rants will once again get little to no exposure. The accused and their loved ones can at least take some solace in that.
Re #318:
From your lips to God's ears.