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White House: Haditha details to be public
AP/Yahoo ^ | 5/31/06 | Unknown

Posted on 05/31/2006 6:20:21 AM PDT by Coop

... Snow said that he has been assured by the Pentagon that "all the details" will be made available...

Rep. John Murtha... has said Marines shot and killed unarmed civilians in a taxi at the scene and went into two homes and shot others.

On Tuesday, [Snow] said President Bush learned of the killings only after a reporter from Time magazine asked questions...

Asked when Bush was first briefed about the events in Haditha, an insurgent stronghold in western Iraq, Snow replied Tuesday: "When a Time reporter first made the call."

According to the attorney for one of three Marine Corps officers relieved of command from a Marine battalion are not targets of investigations into whether their troops killed the civilians or tried to cover it up.

Meanwhile, Lance Cpl. James Crossan of North Bend, Wash., who was injured in the roadside bomb attack in Haditha, told a Seattle television station that some of the Marines might have snapped after seeing one of their own killed in action.

"So, I think they were just blinded by hate ... and they just lost control," Crossan told KING-TV, which aired the interview Tuesday.

The targets... are about a dozen enlisted Marines, according to Hackett, a Marine reservist and Iraqi war veteran who represents Kimber... [Hackett] said the highest ranking among those under investigation is a staff sergeant who led the four-vehicle convoy that was hit by the bomb.

Kimber... was relieved of command last month because his subordinates... used profanity and criticized the performance of Iraqi security services during an interview with Britain's Sky News TV...

...Hackett told The Associated Press by telephone. "He's not under investigation for anything related to what has played out in the press." [snip]

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alleged; crossan; hackett; haditha; iraq; jamescrossan; kimber; marines; massacre; murtha; murthawatch
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To: MNJohnnie
Spare us the fraudulent claims about being "Well spoken, respected members" of this community. You two are nothing but a pair of flame trolls who wander around looking for a fight. No one here respect that sort of behavior.

Johnnie, take it from one who knows.

Alcohol is not your friend.

421 posted on 05/31/2006 9:01:57 PM PDT by sinkspur ( Don Cheech. Vito Corleone would like to meet you......Vito Corleone.....)
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To: Chickensoup
Why is this a big deal?

This is war.

What happened, happened.

Stop treating war as a crime scene.

///////////////////////////////////////////////////

FINALLY! Someone making some sense.

If this is really WAR, then its HELL! If its made for TV drama, then its nice nice nobody gets hurt but our GI's. Not even the jihadists gets hurt. Not even Sadam gets hurt. We bomb only buildings, and save all the people and when we're done we rebuild the country with our money. America is stuck in some made for TV twilight zone. We are honestly becoming house cats and the rest of the world is the alley.

Read this:

JOHN GLENN SAID
Things that make you think a little:


There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq in January.
In the fair city of Detroit there were 35 murders in the
month of January. That's just one American city,
about as deadly as the entire war-torn country of Iraq.


When some claim that President Bush shouldn't
have started this war, state the following:

a. FDR led us into World War II.

b. Germany never attacked us; Japan did.
>From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost ...
an average of 112,500 per year.

c. Truman finished that war and started one in Korea.
North Korea never attacked us..
>From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost ...
an average of 18,334 per year.

d John F. Kennedy started the Vietnam conflict in 1962.
Vietnam never attacked us.

e. Johnson turned Vietnam into a quagmire.
>From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost ..
an average of 5,800 per year.

f. Clinton went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent.
Bosnia never attacked us.
He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter three
times by Sudan and did nothing. Osama has attacked us on
multiple occasions.

g. In the years since terrorists attacked us , President Bush
has liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled
al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Libya, Iran, and, North
Korea without firing a shot, and captured a terrorist who
slaughtered 300,000 of his own people.

The Democrats are complaining
about how long the war is taking.
But
It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno
to take the Branch Davidian compound.
That was a 51-day operation....

We've been looking for evidence for chemical weapons
in Iraq for less time than it took Hillary Clinton to find
the Rose Law Firm billing records.

It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the
Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard
than it took Ted Kennedy to call the police after his
Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick.

It took less time to take Iraq than it took
to count the votes in Florida!!!!

Our Commander-In-Chief is doing a GREAT JOB!
The Military morale is high!

The biased media hopes we are too ignorant
to realize the facts



But Wait .

There's more!



JOHN GLENN (ON THE SENATE FLOOR)
Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:13



Some people still don't understand why military personnel
do what they do for a living. This exchange between
Senators John Glenn and Senator Howard Metzenbaum
is worth reading. Not only is it a pretty impressive
impromptu speech, but it's also a good example of one
man's explanation of why men and women in the armed
services do what they do for a living.



This IS a typical, though sad, example of what
some who have never served think of the military.



Senator Metzenbaum (speaking to Senator Glenn):
"How can you run for Senate
when you've never held a real job?"



Senator Glenn (D-Ohio):
"I served 23 years in the United States Marine Corps.
I served through two wars. I flew 149 missions.
My plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire on 12 different
occasions. I was in the space program. It wasn't my
checkbook, Howard; it was my life on the line. It was
not a nine-to-five job, where I took time off to take the
daily cash receipts to the bank."



"I ask you to go with me ... as I went the other day...
to a veteran's hospital and look those men ...
with their mangled bodies . in the eye, and tell THEM
they didn't hold a job!



You go with me to the Space Program at NASA
and go, as I have gone, to the widows and Orphans
of Ed White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee...
and you look those kids in the eye and tell them
that their DADS didn't hold a job.



You go with me on Memorial Day and you stand in
Arlington National Cemetery, where I have more friends
buried than I'd like to remember, and you watch
those waving flags.



You stand there, and you think about this nation,
and you tell ME that those people didn't have a job?

What about you?"


For those who don't remember ..
During W.W.II, Howard Metzenbaum was an attorney
representing the Communist Party in the USA.

Now he's a Senator!



If you can read this, thank a teacher.
If you are reading it in English thank a Veteran.



Keep this circulating
422 posted on 05/31/2006 9:09:58 PM PDT by photodawg
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To: MNJohnnie

Like diplomats, they preen.

Thank god the real men are on the battlefield, and the whiners remain at the keyboard.


423 posted on 05/31/2006 9:10:17 PM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: CharlesWayneCT

"Remember, someone else posted here that the reason the Marine's story is doubted is that the dead had gunshot wounds, NOT shrapnel"

That is not the way I read the story. I read it, that the dead, died of gunshot wounds, not shrapnel wounds. I did not read that the dead had no shrapnel wounds.


424 posted on 05/31/2006 9:12:07 PM PDT by mjaneangels@aolcom
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To: sinkspur; Coop; DevSix; lugsoul
Cannot defend the indefensible. Your second post on this thread and you accuse one of the other Freepers of lying? No matter how you try to spin out of it, that is what your Post 185 is. Accusing the other side of lying. So spare us the posturing as poor little picked on victims "Well spoken Respected Members of the Community". You and Lug decided to play Flame troll and went looking for a fight. Don't whine now that you got it.

To: DevSix The reality is this young girl knew an IED was planted. Her family was aware this was planted ...and in Haditha, with this being a LOS IED...her family was likely supporting those insurgents who detonated it.

(Sinkspur) Where are you getting this? Just making stuff up?

185 posted on 05/31/2006 10:40:26 AM PDT by sinkspur ( Don Cheech. Vito Corleone would like to meet you......Vito Corleone.....)

425 posted on 05/31/2006 9:16:21 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (I would rather be an Iraqi in a Hidatha guarded by Marines, then a subject of Al-Qeda anywhere.)
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To: freema; lugsoul
freema, it's late and I'm off to bed shortly, and I was just looking to tell you hello. Been a while, darlin'.

Now as for you lugsoul, whatever you are, or whatever you think you are, you mess with this lady freema, you mess with me.

She'll take care of you on her own, and this is the last I'll say to you.Good men watch her 6.

426 posted on 05/31/2006 9:22:25 PM PDT by smoothsailing (Support The Troops-Support The Mission http://www.irey.com)
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To: MNJohnnie
Your second post on this thread and you accuse one of the other Freepers of lying?

Yes. And he continued to lie about what I posted (and even about what I didn't post) throughout the thread.

Johnnie, the thread is dead. Give it up. Go to bed. There's nobody left to argue with.

427 posted on 05/31/2006 9:24:31 PM PDT by sinkspur ( Don Cheech. Vito Corleone would like to meet you......Vito Corleone.....)
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To: Axlrose

"Assuming that part of the story is true, and they did exist, and did die in the way it is claimed they died."

Get rid of your "Assuming", then get rid of your "and". What do you have left now?


428 posted on 05/31/2006 9:31:45 PM PDT by mjaneangels@aolcom
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To: sinkspur; MNJohnnie; Coop

I'm still here : )


You and lugsoul haven't had any trouble calling the Marines a bunch of liars so I'm not surprised you called Coop a liar behind his back.


429 posted on 05/31/2006 9:46:02 PM PDT by freema (Proud Marine FRiend, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

Thanks for the ping!


430 posted on 05/31/2006 9:46:26 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: freema

Btt


431 posted on 05/31/2006 9:52:26 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: Fishtalk

Pat,

First I want to thank you for you blog, and the link to your blog in an earlier post.

After reading your blog on this, there is one thing I had a question about, that you, surprisingly, did not address.

The 9 year old girl, while being rescued by an Iraqi, asked why her grandparents were killed. The way she phrased that implied that she thought, either that the person rescuing her, or someone who wore the same uniform had done the killing of her grandparents. The Iraqi who was taking her to safety said the "Americans" killed them. Some time after that, the girl accused the "Americans" of this event that we are discussing.

Did that girl originally believe that the Iraqi who rescued her was the person that killed her grandparents? Did she believe that someone who wore the same uniform as the Iraqi had killed her grandparents?

Just thought I would ask this.


432 posted on 05/31/2006 9:58:25 PM PDT by mjaneangels@aolcom
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To: sinkspur; lugsoul; BeHoldAPaleHorse; Coop; DevSix; Peach; Just A Nobody; eeevil conservative; ...
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/31/haditha/index.html

Video on lower right hand side of the screen. Called "Haditha Uncovered. Go watch it.

Ok self styled "experts". Since some of you are posting as "KNOWING " what happened in Haditha, how can these three facts be logically reconciled with what the Iraqis, and you supposed Freepers, are accusing the Marines of doing?

According to published reports, a number of Marines from the storied 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, 1st Marine Division are accused killing more than 20 Iraqi civilians in retaliation for the death of one of their comrades by a roadside bomb in November, 2005.

Okie, 20 Dead Civilians. Which you some of you are running around this Website telling us were all shot to death at short range in a building that had not been penetrated by any rounds from outside. In other words shot to death inside the building as a deliberate act not an accident of war. In fact, PH claims a shrapnel wound is so obviously different that a Combat Infantry Marine would know the difference between the two.

Leave aside the obviously question why would a Infantry Marine would be examining the wounds of dead Civilians which is not part of his job, lets assume, that is correct. Ok, then how come your "Witnesses" as interviewed for CNN by the "Iraqi Civil Rights group" are making such obviously absurd claims on the video? "They burned the room with my father in it then threw a bomb"? Neat trick that. How they "Burn the room"? We don't use flame throwers. "Threw a bomb" but you are telling us it all gun shot wounds. "a Bomb" inflict shrapnel wounds.

Notice also the mannerism of the "children survivors". Having come thru what would of been the most terrifying event of their lives and being forced to talk about it again, yet the kids show no hesitation or emotion. Just a dull recital of supposed "Facts" as if they were reciting a story as an memorization assignment in School. Very strange that. Absolutely no real emotion, just a breathless recital of "Facts" Then when done speaking look over to the person standing to the right of the camera (You can see his shadow behind the kids). Sure looks like kids looking at a teacher to see how they did in reciting their "lesson"

Then there is the part where the "Iraqi Civil Rights Group" filming the kids told the Iraqi boy to "show his wounds". It must not of occurred to the "Iraqi Civil Rights Group" making the video to consider the Iraqi boy's supposed "wound". Apparently no one bothered to think about where he was "shot". The supposed "wound" supposedly inflicted by US Marines at point blank range, (as claimed by the "Iraqi Civil Rights Group)" is directly over his spine. Yet when told he got up and turned around for the camera to "Show his wounds"?

If he HAD been shot there, he would be crippled for life, his spine severed just below the neck. So your "Iraqi Civil Rights Group" are shown to be liars. Since they lied about this, what ELSE might they have lied about? So want to try and explain these inconsistencies in your "witnesses" testimony? Wanna maybe rethink your position now that you know ALL your "facts" are based on the claims of an "Iraqi Civil Rights Group" that is prove to be liars?

433 posted on 05/31/2006 10:08:02 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (I would rather be an Iraqi in a Hidatha guarded by Marines, then a subject of Al-Qeda anywhere.)
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To: mjaneangels@aolcom
Then how in the world, can the subsequent investigation prove that the initial investigation was wrong? How can anyone prove that the people that died that day, died of gunshot wounds vs shrapnel if there is no way to prove time of death?

This is not looking good for the media and Murtha, unless there were autopsies done.

There are pictures taken by the Marine who was part of the 'clean-up' crew (to pick up the bodies) who were sent in very shortly after this happened. There also could be bullets which could be retrieved fro the walls.

I agree with you autopsies would be much more definitive in determining whether the people were shot by the Marines or by others since they could test the guns and the bullets to see if there was a match. Not having seen the pictures but going off of what's been reported about the child being held in his Mom's lap, I just don't see how shrapnel could have killed all 24 of them. If shrapnel was the culprit and based upon everything I've ever read about people killed/wounded by shrapnel, there would have been some survivors who would have sustained shrapnel wounds.

I would like to see autopsies performed to determine whether the bullets used were those of weapons used by the Marines or whether they might have been shot by the enemy as a set-up.

I'll wait though until the report is finished before I lean either way. Murtha has no business opening his mouth and condemning our Marines until the report is final and/or the Marines if guilty, have been convicted. I'd like to know who appointed him judge, jury and executioner.

434 posted on 05/31/2006 10:15:02 PM PDT by Sally'sConcerns
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To: mjaneangels@aolcom
Seen the famous CNN tape by the "Iraqi Civil Rights Group" , the SOURCE of all this supposed "Information" in the American Junk Media? Video tapes 3 supposed Children Survivors. At one point they have the boy stand up and turn around and show what is claimed to be a bullet wound we are told was give him by "US Marines" The supposed wound is directly over his spine. IF he had been shot their he would be crippled for life. It would of shattered his spine.

Sure beginning to smell like the old "Guerrilla war" trick Stage an atrocity and blame it on your foes with a whole lot of publicity. Real easy to do when the American Junk Media is acting as the Terrorist Propaganda outlet.
435 posted on 05/31/2006 10:30:44 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (I would rather be an Iraqi in a Hidatha guarded by Marines, then a subject of Al-Qeda anywhere.)
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To: Chickensoup
[Quote}Why is this a big deal?

This is war.

What happened, happened.

Stop treating war as a crime scene.[/Quote]

I was just thinking this on memorial day as I was reading eyewitness transcripts from survivors of Okinawa 1945, the entire conflict was an atrocity by todays standards. Not sure if it is a proper analogy comparing WWII to Iraq.

I am begining to wonder if a war can be won by a legitimate army in todays world without overwhelming media support......

436 posted on 05/31/2006 10:34:54 PM PDT by KTM rider
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To: MNJohnnie

Are you sure Micheal Moore wasn't there providing the script?

I fhe were- then we can all just breath easy and know that this is pure truthful documentary....ya know!

seriously- thanks for posting this.. great points.. we have got realize that we may think these people are centuries behind us-- third world- whatever- but the truth is.. these people know the art of media manipulation.. and our media is MORE than willing to help them in any way possible....


437 posted on 05/31/2006 10:47:24 PM PDT by eeevil conservative (I am your worst nightmare. I am not a racist, terrorist, or nativist. I am an AMERICAN, & I Vote!)
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To: sinkspur

If the civilians weren't innocent, there's every reason to shoot them. If they were innocent, there's every reason to suspect they weren't innocent or they wouldn't have been there.

You apparently learned nothing from Fallujah.


438 posted on 06/01/2006 2:34:36 AM PDT by Jezebelle (Don't tread on me.)
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To: Sally'sConcerns

Unfortunately, autopsies to check the bullets won't give anything definitive as weapons were taken in an ambush where Marines were killed a few months before.


439 posted on 06/01/2006 2:50:35 AM PDT by freema (Proud Marine FRiend, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: MountainMenace
The mental state of someone constantly exposed to covert aggression in a combat zone is not at all similar to that of someone walking down a metro city street expecting to get mugged.

While I agree with this statement, this in no way excuses the actions if true (and that's a very large "if").

We expect our soliders to be professionals. We need them not to lose their heads. If they can't keep their wits about them in combat, then they won't live very long.

440 posted on 06/01/2006 3:42:25 AM PDT by highball (Proud to announce the birth of little Highball, Junior - Feb. 7, 2006!)
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