That's news to me. Unless Rowan is only speaking about certain "civilians" and not all of them. I haven't yet seen any evidence showing who fired the shots.
I have family visiting so am not caught up on new details regarding this case. But I have noted (and so have other freepers probably) that:
1) Military officers said they were talking to people in that neighborhood and community for months after the incident and never heard that Marines shot civilians in cold blood. That is in itself suspicious and I wonder if it's a case where people's stories have "evolved" over time.
2) Just yesterday someone pinged me that no autopsies were conducted and the military is trying to get the bodies exhumed. I was stunned. How is it that anyone suspects the Marines killed these civilians in cold blood without ballistics reporting? Are we just going on Iraqi reports?
My husband stated, Since the town of Haditha, is noted to be insurgent occupied, maybe the insurgents killed the women and children in question. Then they told the Iraqui's, "See what the soldiers did to these women and children?" And with the MSM being as skitzophrenic as they are, they'd just run with the chance to do an, I told ya so on the Military...
...I'd never believe anything concerning much of anything printed by that deranged excuse for media we have...
It shouldnt be news to you, you seem to have been swept up in the "Blame the Marines" hysteria sweeping the media and White House.
BTTT