TO ALL OF MY FELLOW LEATHERNECKS. THE MOVIE (BATTLE FOR HADITHA) FILMED IN JORDAN, IF ANYTHING WILL ACTUALLY HELP THE MARINES THAT ARE BEING CHARGED, IT IS FAR FROM A TYPICAL HOLLYWOOD MOVIE, IT IS MOSTLY INPROVISATION, DRAWING FROM THE REAL EXPERIENCES OF IRAQIS AND U.S MARINE COMBAT VETERANS. IT IS TOLD FROM THE IRAQIS POINT OF VIEW, THE INSURGENTS POINT OF VIEW, AND THE MARINES POINT OF VIEW AND WE HAVE THE MOST CAMERA TIME. BELIEVE ME WE STOOD UP FOR SSGT WUTERICH AND EVERYONE ELSE WHO DIDNT COP A PLEA. WE REPRESENTED THE CORPS IN A POSITIVE LIGHT. NONE OF US CONDONE KILLING CIVILIANS BUT MANY OF THE SO CALLED INNOCENTS WERE PROVEN INSURGENTS. EVEN MANY OF THE IRAQIS IN THE FILM UNDERSTOOD OUR POINTS. I AM PLAYING CAPTAIN SAMPSON AND I WAS IN COMBAT OPERATIONS IN IRAQ AND LIBERIA WHEN I WAS AN 0311. 3 OF THE OTHER MAIN CHARACTERS ARE ALSO FORMER INFANTRY MARINES WHO WERE IN FALUJAH AND HADITHA. WE WOULD NEVER SELL OUT OUR FELLOW MARINES FOR OUR 15 MINUTES OF FAME. WE WERE SKEPTICAL OF THE SUBJECT MATTER AT FIRST BUT WE ARE EXTREMELY PROUD OF THE FINISHED PRODUCT. WE KNOW THIS FILM WHICH YOU CAN SEE A PREVIEW AT (WWW.BARNEYBROOMFIELD.COM) WILL BE VERY CONTROVERSIAL, BUT PLEASE DONT JUDGE IT UNTIL YOU SEE IT. THIS FILM WILL SHOW THE WORLD OUR SACRIFICE AND OUR DEDICATION TO OUR COUNTRY AND HOW WE RISK OUR LIVES ONLY TO GET LOCKED UP IN THE BRIG FOR DOING OUR JOB AND PROTECTING OUR LIVES AND OUR BUDDIES LIVES. WHILE CNN SAYS WE ARE COLDBLOODED KILLERS AND MENTIONS NOTHING ABOUT THE TERRORISTS OR THE RUTHLESS COWARDNESS OF THE INSURGENCY THAT WE DEAL WITH EVERYDAY WHILE DEPLOYED. THE MOVIE ALSO IMPORTANTLY SHOWS THAT MANY IRAQI PEOPLE ARE PEACE LOVING AND ARE ALSO VICTIMS OF THESE SAME INSURGENTS. THIS MOVIE IS FAR FROM LIBERAL PROPAGANDA AND IS THE MOST ACCURATE PORTRAYAL OF THE WAR ON TERROR YET. HENCE THE NAME BATTLE FOR HADITHA NOT THE HADITHA MASSACRE. SEMPER-FI
I replied...
Well, I have an open mind and watched the trailer.
Your film clearly shows Marines killing defenseless civilians with their hands in the air.
Your film clearly shows a massacre against civilians by out-of-control Marines.
Your film is coming out even before the Article 32s will be completed.
You cannot possibly believe it will help the Haditha Marines to release a film showing them killing unarmed civilians.
PS. No one in the Haditha case has copped a plea.
OK - I just watched the trailer. It is disgusting and vile. There is nothing redeeming in the trailer or that reflects positively on the Marines. This “marine” is full of shinola. He willingly participated in a piece of anti-Marine propaganda. He belongs in the same category as Murtha, Kerry and Adam Kokesh.
#37 is Post with out the T????