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On a Marine Base, Disbelief Over Charges
New York Times ^
| May 29, 2006
| Carolyn Marshall
Posted on 05/30/2006 6:00:23 AM PDT by Peach
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To: LS
I think what most freepers are doing is saying that those Marines are innocent until proven guilty.
We've all seen this playbook before and they wouldn't be the first Marines charged with premeditated murder in Iraq only to be found innocent.
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posted on
05/30/2006 6:38:36 AM PDT
by
Peach
(DICC's - doing the work for the DNC)
To: Peach
This Marine was charged with premeditated murder and other war crimes in Iraq and was found innocent of the charges:
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.
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posted on
05/30/2006 6:41:49 AM PDT
by
Peach
(DICC's - doing the work for the DNC)
To: Peach
When a civilian is found guilty of murder and given the death penalty, the leftists come out in droves to defend the murderer. Not the victim(s).
But let the military, MAYBE get carried away in the heat of the moment, and the media and left have soldiers and Marines found already guilty, even without a trial.
The double standard is shocking.Worth repeating and remembering. Often we need the obvious pointed out to us.
Thanks Peach.
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posted on
05/30/2006 6:45:28 AM PDT
by
CedarDave
(Sleeper trolls are like cicadas - emerge in the heat and contribute nothing but loud annoying noise)
To: LS
Laura Ingraham saying her sources in the Pentagon say it's bad. I think some Freepers are putting their heads in the sand, rather than realizing that what makes us GREAT is that when such atrocities occur with our fighting forces, WE identify it, WE prosecute it, WE try it, and WE address it. Putting their heads in the sand why? Because we won't pronounce guilt before the learning the facts? Hand me a shovel, and I'll put the rest of my body in there as well.
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posted on
05/30/2006 6:47:51 AM PDT
by
Coop
(FR = a lotta talk, but little action)
To: CedarDave
Changing tagline. It's stolen from another freeper whose name I don't remember.
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posted on
05/30/2006 6:48:35 AM PDT
by
Peach
(If you can't stand behind our military, stand in front of them.)
To: SE Mom
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posted on
05/30/2006 6:48:54 AM PDT
by
Coop
(FR = a lotta talk, but little action)
To: CedarDave
It always irks me that the media are not satisfied with reporting what is or has happene. They want to predict the future. They are like kids in the back of a car going "Are we there yet?"
The other day in the Blair news conferance president Bush said, "we've suffered a lot over Abu Gharib. Ann Compton summarized saying that he had said. "We are going to suffer a lot." No respecter of tense, she.
To: Peach; HarleyLady27
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posted on
05/30/2006 6:57:52 AM PDT
by
Coop
(FR = a lotta talk, but little action)
To: Peach
I think I'll change my tag line too.
All Freepers should let this be their tag line.
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posted on
05/30/2006 6:59:18 AM PDT
by
processing please hold
(If you can't stand behind our military, stand in front of them.)
To: Coop; HarleyLady27
That was her quote, wasn't it?
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posted on
05/30/2006 7:00:35 AM PDT
by
processing please hold
(If you can't stand behind our military, stand in front of them.)
To: Peach
I wonder if associates of the CBS crew killed and wounded are angry with those who committed the act, or angry with the President and Rumfeld for directiong the troops into Iraq?
Never mind, I know the answer.
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posted on
05/30/2006 7:03:10 AM PDT
by
CedarDave
(Sleeper trolls are like cicadas - emerge in the heat and contribute nothing but loud annoying noise)
To: HarleyLady27; Coop
Thank you for my new tagline, HarleyLady.
I am sick to DEATH of the left who defend civilian murderers from the death penalty. These civilian murderers can be mass murderers who committed the most heinous crimes, but the left will defend them, every time.
But let a military man MAYBE commit a crime of a similar nature, and without benefit of a trial, the left have them convicted and hung already.
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posted on
05/30/2006 7:03:55 AM PDT
by
Peach
(If you can't stand behind our military, stand in front of them.)
To: All
We don't know yet what really happened.
It might not satisfy most, but the guilt they will bear for this action, if it occurred, will be punishment enough.
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posted on
05/30/2006 7:04:13 AM PDT
by
David Allen
(the presumption of innocence - what a concept!)
To: pbrown
Thank you for supporting our beloved military.
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posted on
05/30/2006 7:04:21 AM PDT
by
Peach
(If you can't stand behind our military, stand in front of them.)
To: CedarDave
I can't remember, in my lifetime, the left being angry with the RIGHT people. The left have stood with every tinpot dictator the world ever produced. And they have condemned every Republican president who has tried to free people from a life of tyranny and fear.
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posted on
05/30/2006 7:05:36 AM PDT
by
Peach
(If you can't stand behind our military, stand in front of them.)
To: Peach; LS
I think you are both right. A number of freepers are taking the innocent until proven guilty - wait and see attitude (which is the correct one in all criminal cases).
But there are also those who do have their heads in the sand and deny that there is even any remote possibility of there being any truth to the story, in spite of the Corps own investigation.
Some freepers (not you P) are attacking those who allow for the possibility of there being something here as being trolls or tools of the left. This accomplishes nothing and is childish.
There is only one truth about this, and that truth will be revealed eventually. We will all have to live with whatever it is.
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posted on
05/30/2006 7:05:57 AM PDT
by
wtc911
(You can't get there from here)
To: Coop; Peach; HarleyLady27
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posted on
05/30/2006 7:06:48 AM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(Don't mess with Texas.)
To: LS
Some Freepers are sniveling water-boys for the MSM.
Most support these Marines no matter what.
To: Peach
I think what most freepers are doing is saying that those Marines are innocent until proven guilty. There are some, however, who are in essence saying that it wouldn't be that big a deal even if they were guilty.
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posted on
05/30/2006 7:08:35 AM PDT
by
r9etb
To: Arrowhead1952
Oh, I read that woman and found her a disgusting excuse for a human being.
Without even being charged or having a trial, she has the Marines ready to be hung.
But I'll bet she'd defend a civilian mass murderer in this country from the death penalty.
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posted on
05/30/2006 7:08:50 AM PDT
by
Peach
(If you can't stand behind our military, stand in front of them.)
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