Posted on 05/29/2006 6:12:03 PM PDT by Marli
Only hours after Iraqi civilians were killed, a second team of Marines was sent in to take the victims' bodies to a local morgue.
Lance Corp. Ryan Briones was among the Marines sent in to recover the bodies, and he told the Los Angeles Times he is still haunted by what he saw, including a young girl who was shot in the head.
"[The victims] ranged from little babies to adult males and females," Briones told the newspaper. "I can still smell the blood."
Briones says he and another Marine were told to photograph the bodies. Military officials say those photos — which they say show people shot at close range in the head and chest — clearly contradict initial reports that the civilians were killed by a roadside bomb.
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gAyBC smear bump
Covering your wrinkled a** until retirement, eh, Jack?
I can still smell the B.S.
Abu Ghraib was a prank that turned into red meat for the press.
Haditha may turn out to be a banquet for the press.
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This incident is a 'wait and see'. It could be very bad in many ways.
Probably shot by the homicidal terrorists on the way out the back door.
No film, no proof.
Perfect set up for the press.
This was an incident and it was not a war crime whatsover. It is not at all a pattern of behavior of our troops. In fact in a 3 years presence of our troops in Iraq we have a rare incident like this one where our military is consistently present and fighting in civilian centers, the rare type of these incidents is a miracle by itself, any other army in the world fighting this type of war would have committed much more than this rare incident, all this is a great testimony of the extreme discipline and professionalism of our troops.
God bless our troops.
As with most military tasks, no one is better at this than the U.S. military.
I'm sick at the way the left is going to pounce on this, but there's nothing we can do about that.
Lance Corp. Ryan Briones was among the Marines sent in to recover the bodies, and he told the Los Angeles Times he is still haunted by what he saw, including a young girl who was shot in the head. "[The victims] ranged from little babies to adult males and females," Briones told the newspaper. "I can still smell the blood."How exactly is this a "smear?"
Lance Corp. Ryan Briones was among the Marines sent in to recover the bodies, and he told the Los Angeles Times
Damn it, what is this Marine talking to the press for.....
Sorry, this is an eyewitness. A Marine.
I agree. I don't like the people on the left who are ready to convict. And I don't really care for a few on the right who say no crime could have possibly been committed. We'll have to wait and see.
I get the sneaking suspicion that these wounds will be from a Ak-47 and not an M-16. And if they are from a M-16 it was from a weapon that was not in the hands of a US Marine.
"...this is an eyewitness..."
excuse me?
I'm pretty sure that that was one of the first things the investigators checked.
Well. There goes the military investigation. So much for innocent until proven guilty. Jughead here can't keep his big mouth shut. Dat you Jesse?
You are going to defend our troops from this coming liberal media offensive aren't you?
Listen Marli, you start sounding like a DUmmy troll here, just be careful.
At some point, you are going to have to drop the ridiculous defenses and insults and realize that something very bad happened here, and it appears to have been covered up. There is way too much smoke for there not to be fire.
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