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SAN DIEGO (AP) - The Marines should pursue a less serious administrative charge against a captain accused of failing to probe the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians because he was "selectively singled out" for prosecution while more senior officers escaped charges, an investigating officer said.

IMO the Marines should pursue dropping all charges and apologizing to each and every one of the Haditha Marines. It is embarrassing to me that the USA let the enemy within carry this travesty of justice this far. The people of the United States, especially southwestern Pennsylvania, need to set aside their apathy or greed and get rid of the seditious or Marxist politician thugs like Murtha.

In a report obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday, McCann wrote that Stone was "derelict in the performance of his duties," and negligently failed to inform his bosses that the way the Iraqis were killed posed a "possible use of force issue."

If the AP has the report, why don't we? If the report is supposed to be secure, why does the AP have it.

Perhaps Maj. Thomas McCann should be brought up on charges for dereliction and negligence.

Bingo. Drop charges against everyone and apologise for this fiasco.

It wont happen ,because like the Scooter Libby charge they have to find someone guilty of something. Its horse crap.
They havent got the evidence so they are trying to get something out of this mess so they can say they did something. Dismiss the whole thing in its entirety.

The people of the United States, especially southwestern Pennsylvania, need to set aside their apathy or greed and get rid of the seditious or Marxist politician thugs like Murtha.

Murtha is a danger to our national security. Items like this are never covered outside the finanical press...

Overlooking Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in western Pennsylvania sits a research center that has received $12 million from the Defense Department since 2003 to help companies such as Alcoa Inc. and Timken Co. improve production methods.

The man behind the center is Congressman John Murtha, a local Democrat who founded and allocated the money for it. Trouble is, the Defense Department never asked for it.

The U.S. military's budget is increasingly being diverted to fund the pet projects of lawmakers, often for purposes that stretch the meaning of national defense. The funds are sometimes taken from training and spare parts -- a "dangerous" practice at a time when the Army is spread thin in Iraq and facing threats in Iran and North Korea, says John Shalikashvili, a retired general and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

"It's gotten completely out of hand," Shalikashvili, 70, said in an interview. "This is the time that we need to put the Army in full readiness, and we cannot even afford to do that."

And in other news, Murtha recently announced from Johnstown a $30 million contract that the Marine Corps Systems Command was awarding to Concurrent Technologies Corporation. Wonder if the Corps wants what Big Daddy is buying them?