Replies

You are so right, this could well be another Mohammed al-Dura incident..... the Islamo-fascists love to try that sort of thing. I am extremely suspicious about stuff like the video referred to in the Times article -- anything like that from a "trainee Iraqi journalist" is almost certainly from a terrorist propagandist. When you consider that the terrorists run Haditha with a savage fist, no one but their own propagandist would have been allowed to practice "journalism" there on this matter.

Also, the article refers to visits of US investigators long after the fact -- as I've said before, any evidence that was not gathered and preserved before the terrorists resumed control of the area is worthless unless there is reason to be sure it has not been tampered with. If there is supposed to be no evidence of a firefight, I would want to know with certainty that no walls and windows have been repaired or replaced, etc. How can we come in months later and determine what really happened when the area is in control of the scumbags??

"But a video made by a trainee Iraqi journalist was passed to Time magazine. It showed bloodstained bodies, bullet and shrapnel marks inside the Hassan family home, and walls spattered with blood. There was no evidence of a skirmish on the outside of the buildings. Doctors said that most of the victims had been shot from close range in the head or chest."

Thanks for the ping. I can't add nothing new that a number of thinking people have introduced and discussed.
It is always nice to read honest discourse with often variances in opinion. Surely this case provides one an option for variance. The ROE, are fine. But the ROE will probably be modified in the future by the Pentagon. Like those early days in the bannana republics with our Army and Marines (small war manuals) one sees parallels that simply went out of vogue later on, e.g. WWI,WWII, Korea.
What ROE allows for a Marine that must bust down a door to follow some known terrorist and take them out quickly and effeciently, do when they encounter some poor women holding a baby screaming.
The calls are truly tough or our guys. And those filthy scum bags know all to well, our guys cannot act in a brutal way and just mow the bastards down. The ROE must be modified to accomodate these new Security and Stablilization Operations (SASO).
As all at FR. I prayerfully hope the board of enquiry will find these brave Marines not guilty of any charges once things settle out.