[Txsleuth]

PING

[an amused spectator]

gAyBC smear bump

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

"Something broke down here in the sense that no investigation was conducted immediately," said Gen. Jack Keane. "Therefore, people most likely in the chain of command who had knowledge and should have taken action appropriately did not and they will be under investigation for the failure to do that."

Covering your wrinkled a** until retirement, eh, Jack?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I can still smell the B.S.

[TomGuy]

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.

[xcamel]

Probably shot by the homicidal terrorists on the way out the back door.
No film, no proof.
Perfect set up for the press.

[jveritas]

Liberals and their media have started this memorial day offensive about the Haddytha incident. Expect to hear about this story for many weeks to come. They want to make another non story like Abu Ghraib, blame President Bush for it, attack the moral of our military, cause anger in Iraq against us, and help the terrorists cause.

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.

[68skylark]

Allegations of war crimes need to be investigated, and tried if there's evidence.

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.

[mystery-ak]

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.....

[Spruce]

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.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Lance Corp. Ryan Briones was among the Marines sent in to recover the bodies, and he told the Los Angeles Times...

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?

[Waco]

The enemy likes to use civilians as cover for the attack they are about to launch. Then the turdbucket Murthas go nuts about the G'I's "attacking" civilians unprovoked. War is hell, ain't it Joe?

[bnelson44]

More info here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1640366/posts

[bray]

The Stone-age press continues to try this case before the trial. This guy has no idea who shot who or what the circumstances were. He is a mortician.

If ABDNC is wrong about these soldiers there will no price to pay from the 4th estate. They are their own corrupt cops.

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters

[Americanexpat]

I drove into Haditha once, with my security team, having to detour off the road while the Marines were clearing an IED.
We got stopped by a local and he told us "We will not kill you this time, but do not come back here again." I looked around and saw several men with AKs and an RPG standing around us. I smiled and we left and I never drove through that town again. There are Marines stationed on top of the Haditha Dam about a mile away over looking the town and they told us it was an extremely bad place and to avoid it.

Haditha is a hot bed of terrorist activity, a lot of Americans have been killed and wounded around there, and I think it should be bombed off the face of the earth.

I will not prejudge these Marines, but I do not trust anything an Iraqi tells me about all edged atrocities they have been caught lying before. There is the possibility that these people may have been killed by the terrorist too. Were the terrorists fighting from these houses? If there was fire coming from the houses then they could have been killed in the exchange. All this will come out in the investigation and trial if there is one.

[TheCrusader]

""Something broke down here in the sense that no investigation was conducted immediately," said Gen. Jack Keane. "Therefore, people most likely in the chain of command who had knowledge and should have taken action appropriately did not and they will be under investigation for the failure to do that."

And so goes the nuttiest war in U.S. history, where every battle or skirmish that ends in Iraqi deaths must be immediately and fully investigated by the military and treated as possible homicides until the investigations are completed and the troops are 'exonerated'. When any question arises regarding those deaths our troops are tried and convicted by the media and the military does zilch to defend those troops from premature conviction in the press. In fact, to appease the lynch-mob media vultures they actually seem to assist in the process.

Frankly, if I were fighting in this war, with all the ridiculous 'engagement' constraints and with every battle fought under the microscope of the anti-American media, I might be more afraid to pull the trigger than not to.

This is supposedly the most professional and best trained American military force ever, and I believe that is probably the case. Yet, we have had more of our troops investigated and convicted of either "abuse" or 'murder' than any other war that I am aware of. So what gives? Are we being too harsh on our troops by holding them to impossible standards and straining them beyond all reasonable human expectations? Are they fighting too long and without enough manpower and hence are so stressed out that they go over the edge and kill innocents? Or are these type of incidents not really so rare in a prolonged, intense war, but are just being publicized more today because the media are as much a part of the war as the troops?

I am not going to condemn any American soldier or Marine until they have received a full and fair trial and are convicted. In any case, how are we ever going to win a war being fought under the watchful eye of the world's hateful, anti-American media, all the while holding our own troops to the standards of this liberal, pc media?

[oneofmany]

I don't believe anything that comes from the Fifth Column media, period

[DakotaRed]

I'd like to know who ordered pictures be taken and how that points to a "cover-up."

Maybe Murtha jumped to conslusions in the Democrat effort to try to slam Bush again?

[eyespysomething]

Why do I picture the lame stream media sniffing the blood also? Except they're happy about it.

[Reactionary]

Oh, goody. We get another moralistic little treat from the Stalinist Left on Memorial Day.

Time to wallow in guilt, self-doubt, and to question whether or not your country is worth defending. On Memorial Day. Of course.