[jazusamo]

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HADITHA MARINE PING!.

Link to master thread: The Haditha Marines-The Squad Leader-A Final Chapter

[Marine_Uncle]

"He told his men to "shoot first and ask questions later." After all, his men were Marines, not policemen."

To this day, I at times get mental images of what my nephew must have had to go through, while running for his life during mortar attacks upon the Fallujah MEK operating base in 2004, when he was spared but his Marine Sarg was blown into pieces perhaps twenty yards from him, as well as attacks not unlike what we read happened in Haditha while my nephew was on patrols in places just south of Baghdad, like Al-Mamudiya and Latifa some twelve clicks south of the capital, and recon patrols he participated in other enemy strong holds around the capital area.
I guess the images of some terrible things our Marines and soldiers have had to do, just in the Iraq and Afghan operations will stay alive in my mind. God bless all that serve in service of their country within the military.
As President Bush stated. They are among our finest Americans.

[smoothsailing]

Almost certainly soldiers and Marines have died or been unnecessarily maimed due to adherence to complex and unrealistic rules of engagement.

And good men will continue to die as long as bottomfeeding vile scum like Tim McGirk can influence our handwringing candyass military leadership.

[smoothsailing]

Then, early in 2006, a reporter from Time Magazine got wind of the incident, and all hell broke loose. An Army report condemned the Marines, Democrat Congressman John Murtha announced that Marines had killed Iraqi civilians in "cold blood," and the press in general had a field day.

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[Lancey Howard]

Fortunately, competent journalists and writers like Keller far outnumber incompetent assclowns like McGirk. Un fortunately, cowards at the Pentagon outnumber the cockroaches in a crack house kitchen.

[Gene Eric]

>> Six years ago, in Haditha, Iraq, in the wake of a deadly insurgent attack on their convoy, a Marine quick reaction force raided several houses ...

Not the way Mark Walker would word it. He typically stops short of naming each, unfortunate casualty.

What's most troubling about Walker's framing is the lack of upfront context that would otherwise support accidental death instead of the wanton murder scenario painted by the jackasses that are indifferent to the facts of that tragic day.