Any chance of this version being voiced anywhere?
Short answer no
We'll hear it on FR and other internet related sites but I wouldn't hold my breath to hear it on old media.
American-Pravda watchers note: The shift by the MSM to massacre stories is evidence that the USA has won the war in Iraq, so the MSM's mission now is to forever sully the victory.
Oh I am absolutely sure your above scenario is the case, CM.
Haditha residents had been warned for several months to vacate the city. A few did not. And those few seemed to be involved in that whole IED and subsequent gunfire on our Marines.
Now here's the question. Does it matter? Assuming I am correct and I think I am (as are you and many of us who have learned there is always the OTHER side of the story), does it matter?
The Marines have a Rules of Engagement policy and here is where I get fuzzy. Do those ROE allow for shooting of children and women in the event they are caught redhanded with their fingers on the IED?
Whatever the case with the ROE, it STILL does not matter. Show a dead baby in the arms of its dead mother, even though the baby and mother were but props in the terrorists' plan, the world will still see a dead baby and what caused their death is not important.
The MSM is playing to the world stage and America-haters. Even IF the ROE apply to Haditha, there will still be an uproar for the cruel treatment of terrorists in the military ROE.
If Haditha blows up like My Lai (and frankly, by me, it looks increasingly like it WON'T thanks to that Canadian bust, the London Times lying picture featured on Malkin's site, and the clearing of the MArines in another incident)-it will be time for the President to come out and do some drop-dead serious talking to the American public.
ref #250, That is an excellent point,and I hope the Conservative talk show people are peeking in on this thread and suggest it themselves.
The little girl said, in the third telling of the story, and this is according to the CNN reporter, she said I was getting ready for school and I knew the bomb would be going off so I covered my ears. The Iragis are lying. I don't believe any of them. They are living with terrorists or they are terrorists themselves. I am sick of the media taking the word of them over our Marines.
I went to a private school for a year back in my high school days in the late 60s / early 70s. Our spanish teacher had come back from a couple of tours in Military Intelligence in Vietnam (I know, that's a contradiction in terms). He established his bona fides with me to that point that I belived what he told me about his experiences. I've never found anything he told me to be contradicted by verified acccounts of the same incidents I've discovered elsewhere. One story I've never been able to get any further information on was his flat out statement that all of the folks int he village of My Lai were VC (men, women and children) and the village was a thin veneer cover for a virtual underground city of VC combatants and arms depots. I'm still not sure it justified what they did, but he was adamant that there were no "innocents" in My Lai.
One odd thing about him that added to his credibility. He had stickers everywhere that said "Charlie's listening."