I read part of an account...guess it was from the Time story which somebody posted on this thread...which did mention body bags, but there was some claim about the little girl's body that there was a problem with it before getting it into the bag. Before I read that, it had seemed that the story was they were removing all the bodies by carrying them without body bags. If what I read was an actual excerpt from the story, that was not what the story said.
HOWEVER...
There still are so many problems with this that you and I could pick it apart completely to pieces in a few minutes.
Maybe something bad went down there by the Marines. I don't know. But I don't trust the Media AT ALL. I most certainly don't trust Congress. I don't even trust the military chain to get it right from the get go. That's why we have TRIALS, Peach (as you've so clearly pointed out)!
If in the heat of the moment, in one of the most dangerous sections of Iraq, a horrible mistake was made, we will be sick about it.
In this country, we see civilian murderers given the death sentence and the leftists defend the murderers. But let the same thing occur by someone in the military, and the media is all too willing to lock up the men who may have made a mistake and over-reacted and throw away the key.
This from the Marine charged with premeditated murder and other war crimes in Iraq (he was later found innocent):
Members of the U.S. military serving in Iraq need more than Mr. Murtha's pseudo-sympathy. They need leaders to stand with them even in the hardest of times. Let the courts decide if these Marines are guilty. They haven't even been charged with a crime yet, so it is premature to presume their guilt -- unless that presumption is tied to a political motive.
ILARIO PANTANO
Jacksonville, N.C.
The writer served as a Marine enlisted man in the Persian Gulf War and most recently as a platoon commander in Iraq.