Oh, never mind!
Posted on 06/01/2006 9:09:03 PM PDT by beaversmom
A lot of Iraqi civilians are going to die now so the MSM can continue with their "massacre" stories. The MSM will do anything to get the power back for their DemocRATic massas. I've seen this movie before.
For this incident, give them $5,000 and their pick of Madeleine Albright, Helen Thomas, or Janet Reno.
Oh, never mind!
bttt
Sort of like the culture at ABCCBSCNN.
This is just an enemy attack by other means with the assistance of unpatriotic leftist news media and politicians.
The question of whether innocent civilians were killed is irrelevant, it happens in war and thats a fact.
I guess FDR was a war criminal for Dresden and Truman for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
We will never win a war again as long as a POTUS lets the media and his political opponents continue to do this.
Lincoln and FDR put politicians and the press in jail for a lot less.
Pity our brave soldiers are dying and a bunch of clowns are running the PR war at home.
I agree with you 100%. If America wins the war on terror, the Liberals lose. They can't afford to let America win. The liars in the MSM will do and say anything to insure we lose this war.
All you have to do to distort something to your political ends is to (a) quote people from both sides of a story, (b) give credibility to those who support your version, (c) disregard or sneer at those opposite. Result: CNN, WP, NYT, etc. promote their agenda.
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Thanks for a good post. So true - and SO disgusting!
Here are some more "muzzie" stories - eventually proven to be hoaxes, but not before they had wreaked havoc and huge losses. And of course our liberal politicos and MSM all fell for them:
Thanks for those links. I read that the military is going to exhume the bodies of those killed in Murtha's "massacre." I think that is a good thing. Hopefully, the truth, whatever it is will finally come out. The MSM can no longer be believed. They are in a bloody feeding frenzy right now. They have only one thing on their mind. Helping the extremist, Liberal DemocRATS like Reid, Kennedy, Pelosi and Murtha gain control of our government and our wallets.
"I didn't say we had made a mistake," Major Hyatt said, describing what he had told the city council member who was representing the victims. "I said I'm being told I can make payments for these 15 because they were deemed not to be involved in combat."
I wonder if being relatives of a member of the Haditha city council influenced the decision to declare those 15 Iraqis as "noncombatants".
Here is a question someone might want to ask:
Why if the Marines "cracked" and went on a "killing" rampage, did they do it this time? What was different here than all the other times they performed by the book?
Murtha ? do you have an answer?
lying to an infidel is not a sin, it is to be applauded
"To be fair to individual Iraqis, lying and deception is an integral part of their culture. It is not even considered lying to them; it is more akin to being clever - like keeping your cards close to your chest. And they don’t just lie to westerners. They believe that appearances--saving face--are of paramount importance. They lie to each other all the time about anything in order to leverage others on a deal or manipulate an outcome of some sort or cover up some major or minor embarrassment. It’s just how they do things, period.
"I’m not trying to disparage them here. I get along great with a lot of them. But even among those that I like, if something happens I’ll get 50 wildly different stories, every time. There’s no comparison to it in any other part of the world where I’ve worked. The lying is ubiquitous and constant.
"Obviously in the case of these soldiers, the “witnesses” were lying with malice for profit - saving face had nothing to do with it.
"But every Westerner here has been taken totally by surprise by the lies upon lies upon BS and lies. It makes it impossible to form any agreements, impossible to plan anything, and impossible to investigate anything….
Wait.... Are the above statements about Iraqis or American Democrats?
No matter.....
ON THE NET...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642075/posts
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Allahpundit has a post packed with information about the alleged massacre at Haditha by US Marines: Haditha: Marine eyewitnesses come forward (Update: Audio and video of the attack?)
UPDATE: Peter Ingemi writes that the antiwar left has made Haditha morally irrelevant: At HADITHA ROUNDUP, plus this pretty much sure-fire prediction: "The media frenzy around the actions of a handful of Marines is now building and, as happened with the illegal acts at Abu Graib, will be used to advance agendas unrelated to the allegations, agendas which trade on the slander of the American military, and which use the very rare exceptions to paint broadly, even as the enemy will." ANOTHER UPDATE: Background and video here.
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