Regardless of where the truth ultimately is, at this point the major media’s treatment of Haditha is little more than a literate lynch mob in a rush to judgment.
Here you are...
Backhoe - thank you so much for doing all this work in putting together the really important links to this story. You are a treasure.
thanks so much for putting all this together in one place.
Bless you bh...again thank you for your hard work and devotion.
Ping for compilation of stories on Haditha.
Bookmarked. Thanks for doing this hard work.
Thanks so much for posting this! Our brave troops don't deserve to be smeared by a by a bunch of leftists while the facts about this battle are still being gathered.
Excellent! Thank you for this. The truth shall emerge.
Thanks Backhoe good job!
BTW is this the link you meant to post?
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/
The one posted doesn't work.
Fantastic job. God Bless you. I am emailing this to all my friends
Wow, backhoe. You just get better and better.
Thanks for all your hardwork.
Thanks so much for putting this together. You are doing what you can with the means at hand to support the troops. You're a great American.
That is an impressive examination of the contradictions in the Haditha story. The media are ignoring the contradictions and weaving conspiracy theories instead against Americans. If the story does indeed prove to be false, it will vanish like it never happened. For most Americans, who get their information from the snippets on the evening news before they watch Survivor, the story will go away unnoticed and they will be left with a vague idea that some Marines were guilty of a massacre somewhere. The Haditha story will have cast doubt on our soldiers and it will thus have achieved its purpose in helping our enemies. I'm not optimistic that anyone in the MSM will face any consequences. There are too many people involved in the "lynching party."
WINTER SOLDIER INVESTIGATION:
Testimony given in Detroit, Michigan, on January 31, 1971, February 1 and 2, 1971
Sponsored by Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Inc.
1ST MARINE DIVISION, Part III
MODERATOR. Mr. Bangert, there's an incident here where you found crucified bodies hanging on barbed wire fences and in the same incident you witnessed South Vietnamese civilians shot without provocation on Highway 1. Could you go into this and kind of see how they are related?
BANGERT. I can cover a couple of these at the same time. The first day I got to Vietnam I landed in Da Nang Air Base. From Da Nang Air Base I took a plane to Dong Ha. I got off the plane and hitchhiked on Highway 1 to my unit.I was picked up by a truckload of grunt Marines with two company grade officers, 1st Lts.; we were about 5 miles down the road, where there were some Vietnamese children at the gateway of the village and they gave the old finger gesture at us.
It was understandable that they picked this up from the GIs there. They stopped the trucks--they didn't stop the truck, they slowed down a little bit, and it was just like response, the guys got up, including the lieutenants, and just blew all the kids away. There were about five or six kids blown away and then the truck just continued down the hill.
That was my first day in Vietnam.
As far as the crucified bodies, they weren't actually crucified with nails, but they would find VCs or something (I never got the story on them) but, anyway, they were human beings, obviously dead, and they would take them and string them out on fences, on barbed wire fences, stripped, and sometimes they would take flesh wounds, take a knife and cut the body all over the place to make it bleed, and look gory as a reminder to the people in the village.
Also in Quang Tri City I had a friend who was working with USAID and he was also with CIA. We used to get drunk together and he used to tell me about his different trips into Laos on Air America Airlines and things.
One time he asked me would I like to accompany him to watch. He was an adviser with an ARVN group and Kit Carson's. He asked me if I would like to accompany him into a village that I was familiar with to see how they act.
So I went with him and when we got there the ARVNs had control of the situation. They didn't find any enemy but they found a woman with bandages. So she was questioned by six ARVNs and the way they questioned her, since she had bandages, they shot her. She was hit about twenty times.
After she was questioned, and, of course, dead, this guy came over, who was a former major, been in the service for twenty years, and he got hungry again and came back over working with USAID, Aid International Development.
He went over there, ripped her clothes off and took a knife and cut, from her vagina almost all the way up, just about up to her breasts and pulled her organs out, completely out of her cavity, and threw them out. Then, he stopped and knelt over and commenced to peel every bit of skin off her body and left her there as a sign for something or other and that was those instances.
MODERATOR. Okay, there were American officers present when this happened or...
BANGERT. There were two super-secret. I know they were field grade officers, who were with MACV in Quang Tri Province in the area. They knew about it.
As an aside, Bangert (Joe) is a close, personal "friend" of John "The Snake" Kerry and has worked on ALL (including 04)of Kerry's campaigns for the past 20 years and this lying, phony, traiterous, fraud has NEVER been repudiated--much less--rejected, by Kerry!!! Why should he, they are "peas in a pod."
WOW!
It appears the breathless hour-on-the-hour reports about Haditha are fading from the DBM 'news'. Wonder if the story is too phony-bologna even for them to hype it. I'm betting the DBM will just simply stop talking about it; no apologies.
Another gold star for you, Sir.
Bookmarked, thanks.