In fairness to Lt. Gen. Mattis, Lancey, I may be wrong but I feel these Article 32 hearings almost had to take place.
The way this whole thing was blown out of proportion from the beginning if the incident had been dismissed I believe the conspiracy theorists would have crucified him and the Corps.
Just my opinion but that’s what I feel.
You make a good point.
I tend to agree with your understanding of the process. Unfortunately, our domestic enemy knows full well that in such fights, the meme rules all and regardless of fact or finding, the damage is done.
We face a domestic enemy that is fully involved in a full press propaganda offensive.
Also, I think Mattis was not the one in charge of this situation until more recently. He inherited it when he changed responsibilities, I believe. Anyone know?
Marine Mom
I agree with you, to an extent.
The reason this entire fiasco got started in the first place is because the cowardly Bush decided to leave the running of the war in the hands of the scumbag ACLU lawyers of JAG. Now the Marines are more concerned with “battlefield ethics”, “rules of engagement”, and sensitivity classes which stress the need to rat out your brothers-in-arms if, heaven forfend, there are incidental civilian casualties following a fatal ambush.
Had the “Haditha massacre” hoax been vociferously exposed right away there would have been no need to drag a bunch of good Marines through the mud for 18 months, at considerable expense to those Marines and their families. Instead, what we see is a bunch of masturbating JAG lawyers and lying NCIS punks knocking each other over to see who can get their name in lights.
This malicious prosecution is a sickening disgrace, and every day that passes makes it worse. I simply find it difficult to believe that the Marine Corps could let itself get handcuffed like this and that Mattis would let it drag on without sticking his boot up somebody’s behind.