And these people says they Support the Troops. Support the Troops my @ss!
They rush out to be the first to say is "It's worse the Abu Grab" or "It's another My Lai" without knowing all the facts.
THe "my lae" comparisons tick me off. At worst, this is a couple of soldiers killing a couple of families -- a very bad thing, to be sure, but this isn't sending in a squadron to burn down an entire village.
I think that part of the problem is the language barrier. Maybe these houses had markings which suggested sympathy with insurgents. Maybe the soldiers saw someone run into the houses right after the blast (which would be the normal thing to do even if you weren't guilty) and assumed they had set off the blast. This wouldn't excuse them, but would put the idea of "cracking" into a different perspective.
When your enemy wears civilian clothes and sets off roadside bombs in residential areas, you are bound to get some civilians killed -- that's what the enemy wants, and why it is important for our government to investigate and present all the facts.
Murtha is a traitor. I say that NOT because he believed the report -- the report may well be true. I say that because he took something bad that a few of our troops may have done, and used it to smear the entire military, and as a political attack on the Commander in Chief.
I saw Weasley Clark on "the Factor" last night, trying to justify Murtha's use of this for political purposes,but Bill did a good job of shutting him down, even though it bothers me that Clark is a "military analyst" for the network, after running for President on the democrat ticket -- which proves he is a political person, not an unbiased military source.