[golfisnr1]

Murtha needs to apologize.

[Shelayne]

Mattis statement PING!

Thanks for the post!

[Jemian]

So, three men have definitely had the charges dropped. Now, Murtha et al need to have treason charges brought against them.

[Irish Luck]

The MSM is not going to be happy about this.

[RedRover]

Gen Mattis ping!

[papasmurf]

From ABSCAM, including (but not limited) to...

Our Military being decimated during his tenure as Head of the Defense Committee
King of "EARMARKS"...more than 150 MILLION DOLLARS for 2008!
Proponent of a Draft
His rescue and unmatched support of Code Pink
Martha is under (AGAIN) investigation?
John Martha's "culture of corruption."
His constant trading of votes for pork
His bribe cover-up
To having a Democratic director of the VA. bus vets to his (Martha's)rally
His brother getting $20.8 million as a defense lobbyist


...to his seditious allegations and anti-American positions in a time of war.

MURTHA should be impeached, stripped of all Military honors, retiremant pay and/or benefits, and re-classified as an enemy combatant!

[2111USMC]

USMC Ping!

[llevrok]

Now how about we have a court marshall of the ball-less, PC JAGs, who brought these charges on such thin evidence?

Careers were ruined and the Corps besmirched.

[jazusamo]

Thanks for posting this, radar101.

The media should be contacted and asked to demand answers from Murtha for the grossly untrue statements he made to Wolf Blitzer, Chris Matthews and other media about the Haditha Marines. What he said was blatantly false and he deprived these Marines of their presumption of innocence.

Murtha’s offices should also be contacted to demand an accounting from him.

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John Murtha’s Contact information:

Telephone:
800-289-2642 from Western PA
814-535-2642
202-225-2065

Snail Mail:
647 Main St, Suite 401
Johnstown, PA 15901

Fax:
814-539-6229 — District
202-225-5709 — Washington

[Girlene]

I can heartily agree with Lt. Gen. Mattis's statement when he wrote this to L Cpl Justin Sharratt

The experience of combat is difficult to understand intellectually and very difficult to appreciate emotionally. One of our Nation's most articulate Supreme Court Justices, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., served as an infantryman during the Civil War and described war as an 'incommunicable experience.' He has also noted elsewhere that 'detached reflection cannot be demanded in the face of an uplifted knife.'

[fontman]

LtGen Mattis = A Marine’s Marine.

Semper Fidelis,
fontman

[gotribe]

I haven’t been following this as closely as you. Does this mean all the Haditha charges were baloney and all the soldiers are not guilty?

[freema]

Ping

[bray]

Me Lie II is falling like a House of Tards.

Pray for W and Our Marines

[sailor4321]

I understand that Lt. Phann was informed today that 1) the government will proceed no further in his case and 2) he is promoted.

[fontman]

Below received in an email from Colonel Khan:

I have personally observed Gen Mattis' physical courage in combat - being out in front of his Marines, exposing himself to the same enemy and dangers that his Marines were exposed to.

Attached letter exemplifies his moral courage - sifting through the complexities of combat where split second decisions determine right or wrong; dead or alive. Rather than throw another brave Marine who went into harms way for our nation, Gen Mattis made the right decision - because he personally has been in combat which is much different than being in a combat operation - or hiding behind a curtain of PSD protection.

From personal experience I have seen too many senior officers throw Marines under the bus because they think that moral courage and being tough is destroying careers for minor infractions or errors in judgment.

For too long our culture has been ruled by the likes of these false leaders - my personal run in with Amos and McKenzie's (HQ Heroes) and other senior officers in our military who churn fine Marines (and Soldiers) like a well oiled Bush Hog and fabricate events to get the Combat Action Ribbon - never having fired a round at the enemy or received a round in their direction - or advance their careers through embellishing actual events, or far worse manipulate investigations to cover their asses (Tillman and many others).

These Gucci Gladiators, in high and tights spewing slick propaganda slogans, have not gone toe to toe with enemy - but steal all the credit from their Marines to advance their own careers. They are slicker than most Foreign Service officers I see out here. They have left a path of destroyed careers which equals Sherman's march across Georgia.

Their definition of moral and physical leadership is to stay isolated in their Digital COCs (or HQs) watching video feeds of the carnage and then pass detached judgment - they want plausible deniability in case something goes wrong. Their example is one of officers sitting in the rear rather than being out front of their Marines leading the assault. In my view this is cowardice not combat leadership - leaving it up to our young to make the critical decisions - between life and death.

At the end of the day Combat Leadership comes down to willing to lay your life down for your Marines. To do this you have to be leading from the front of your Marines - not behind them.

Mattis on the other hand is paving the way for true combat leaders to follow - to train and fight with their Marines - while killing or capturing the enemy.

Mattis is the right man to transform our military culture - not the clowns who are currently in high positions. They need to be weeded and replaced by real combat leaders like Mattis and the upcoming generation of LtCols and Cols who have actually fought alongside (or in front of) their Marines; not those who have participated in combat operations - from the rear - and written bullshit articles about what combat is all about.

If we don't solve our leadership problem - all the fancy weapons, equipment and gear is not going to be a substitute.

My hats off to Jim Mattis - once again, he stands taller than life protecting our military culture and our youngsters. I would trust him with the life of my son - the others I would not trust being behind me - for fear of being stabbed.

Asad Khan, LtCol, USMC (Ret.)

Semper Fidelis,
fontman