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To: darrylsharratt; RDTF; RedRover
I asked him why he denied these Marines their Constitutional rights of due process and the presumption of innocence. Again the Congressman used his experience to side step the answer. Mr. Murtha stated his intentions were to point out the stress our military was under in Iraq.

Yeah sure, Murtha. You really liked that Time magazine story, didn't you? It fit your agenda, and you ran with it. This was never about your concern for "the stress our military was under", which is ridiculous on it's face. Of course our military is under stress, it's what they do, so we don't have too, you twit.

REGARDING HADITHA and the U.S. MARINES:

"It [Haditha, Marines] is as bad as Abu Ghraib, if not worse." (Murtha, May 2006)

"They [the Marines/Military] knew the day after this happened that it was not as they portrayed it. They knew that they (Marines) went into the rooms, they killed the people in the taxi. There was no firing at all. And this comes from the highest authority in the Marine Corps, so there's no question in my mind," (Murtha, May 2006)

"... they [Marine] killed innocent civilians in cold blood." (Murtha, May 17, 2006 at news conference)

"They actually went into the houses and killed women and children. And there was about twice as many as originally reported by Times." (Murtha, Reuters, May 19, 2006)

"It's [Haditha, Marines] much worse than reported in Time magazine." (Murtha, News.comAU, May 18, 2006)

BLITZER: The marines say they're still investigating. They don't know what happened yet. The pentagon says the same thing. How do you know what happened?

MURTHA: Wolf, you read the "Time" magazine articles. There are pictures, there are photos. You don't have to talk to the military about the proof. (Murtha, on CNN/Wolf Blitzer, May 19, 2006... transcript)

40 posted on 07/22/2007 8:27:57 PM PDT by smoothsailing ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction"--President Ronald Reagan)
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BUMP!!!


43 posted on 07/22/2007 8:33:35 PM PDT by RedRover (DefendOurMarines.com)
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To: smoothsailing; Girlene
I made one of my slide shows (as Girlene calls them) of that Murtha appearance on CNN you posted...


74 posted on 07/23/2007 5:54:01 PM PDT by RedRover (DefendOurMarines.com)
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To: smoothsailing; Girlene
I made one of my slide shows (as Girlene calls them) of that Murtha appearance on CNN you posted...


75 posted on 07/23/2007 5:54:01 PM PDT by RedRover (DefendOurMarines.com)
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