Lawyers for Marines, medic plan counterattack in Iraq murder case - Hamdaniya - 'Pendleton 8'

AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 6/27/06 | Thomas Watkins - ap

[Wristpin]

I hope for exoneration too plus dismissal of over anxious JAGs to boot. The loss of these guys and the PR coup for the enemy(both foriegn and domestic)is painful.

[Marine_Uncle]

Hopefully the lawyers representing the defense(s) shall prevail with the facts once all the details are carefully examined and overturn what appears to be yet another false trumped up charge against our Marines.

[freema]

Good point.

[TheCrusader]

Accusing our troops of 'massacres' and 'war crimes' is part of the jihadists war strategy. It accomplishes several things for the terrorists. It gives a black eye to our military and fuels the anti-war movement. It antagonizes the Iraqis and the islamic world into fighting all the harder. It effectively eliminates from battle the U.S. troops charged with crimes, and it absolutely has a negative effect on recruitment because what kid wants to join a military that will turn on him so readily because of some Iraqi's allegation. Our military and political leaders are too stupid to understand all this and have fallen prey to islamic terrorist's strategy.

[TomasUSMC]

If our Marines wanted to kill civilians, there would be train loads of 'em dead in every stinking town in Iraq. Instead our Marines risk their lives to save even the enemy, its civilian allies and their homes and mosques.

AND now the Iraqi Government is talking about releasing 2500 more scum we have captured.

This is BullShiite.