[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Bump and ping.

[CindyDawg]

It's really a shame that our military is having to justify doing their job.

[Coop]

More details that differ greatly from Mr. Murtha's account of that day.

[Pox]

That's probably the most thorough accounting of the incident I've read to date.

I'm very interested in what the investigations will conclude.

[FreedomPoster]

This thing is looking more and more like a mediaops setup by our enemies.

[Mr. Mojo]

....went after insurgents who were firing at them from inside a house.

Using women and children as "human shields."

It's what terrorists do.

[Dialup Llama]

This is a clear explanation of what happened. The video from the two person Hammurabi Human Rights organization is self serving fiction produced by people opposed to the US mission in Iraq. Its a false narrative imposed over video taken well after these events transpired. Some in congress and in the media took this narrative as a record of the actual events.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It is starting to appear as though my suspicions about this so-called "massacre" were correct. The insurgents (some being family members) were in that house. They set up the IED. After the IED was detonated, the Marines returned fire at the house and the so-called "civilians" were either killed in the crossfire or murdered by the insurgents as they departed.

[nmh]

And the truth trickles out ...

"A four-man team of Marines, including Wuterich, kicked in the door and found a series of empty rooms, noticing quickly that there was one room with a closed door and people rustling behind it, Puckett said. They then kicked in that door, tossed a fragmentation grenade into the room, and one Marine fired a series of "clearing rounds" through the dust and smoke, killing several people, Puckett said."

"The Marine who fired the rounds -- Puckett said it was not Wuterich -- had experience clearing numerous houses on a deployment in Fallujah, where Marines had aggressive rules of engagement."

"Although it was almost immediately apparent to the Marines that the people dead in the room were men, women and children -- most likely civilians -- they also noticed a back door ajar and believed that insurgents had slipped through to a house nearby, Puckett said. The Marines stealthily moved to the second house, kicking in the door, killing one man inside and then using a frag grenade and more gunfire to clear another room full of people, he said."

Marines are NOT mass murderers. They were simply doing their job. With gun fire coming out of the house, who would expect less? It's war. People die. Sometimes innocents die too. This is one of those situations.

What disgusts me the most is the additional stress put on our military for DEFENDING THEMSELVES and DOING THEIR JOBS. Marines are a class act.

[rolling_stone]

Sounds like the Marines followed the rules and it was a job well done. War is Hell, better them than US.

[Lancey Howard]

Although it was almost immediately apparent to the Marines that the people dead in the room were men, women and children -- most likely civilians -- they also noticed a back door ajar and believed that insurgents had slipped through to a house nearby, Puckett said.

WOW!!! Okay, I've been waiting to hear from this sergeant. The Haditha hoax is unravelling faster than Zarqawi's colon.

[Enchante]

HADITHA PING! Sounds like Murtha will really be shown to have gone off the deep end slandering our Marines, but more importantly all of the jihad-journalists who have been flogging this issue without the real facts need to FRY.

[Lancey Howard]

(( ping ))

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

Sounds like Murfa is about to eat some rotten crow...

[Solamente]

I've posted this before, but it makes a point:

When I was 14 or 15, I was walking with my girlfriend and my best friend Eddie when some kids a block away in a field started throwing rocks towards us.

Me and Eddie warned them Brooklyn-style to knock it off, or else.

Now, my girlfriend launched into lecturing us about peace and non-violece, etcetera.

Her admonision of our response ended abruptly when a rock bounced off her forehead, which quickly developed into an egg-shaped lump.

We had to hold her back then, because now SHE wanted to kill them!

I learned that day that liberal philosophies aren't worth a damn once the rock bounces off YOUR head!

[DJ MacWoW]

ping

[ChicagoConservative27]

God bless our Troops. I have been hoping that Murtha would eat his words, that POS.

[rwilson99]

Sounds like the first house was shot up by the insurgents.

Considering they target women and children every day, I'm inclined to believe that the our black clad shooters executed the women and children long before the Marines arrived.

[krunkygirl]

Murtha or our Marines?

Is there any question who I will give the benefit of the doubt? Not now and not ever.

God bless our Marines.

[xzins]

These Marines are innocent.

This information simply supports their innocence.