Shameful reactions to Haditha 'atrocity' (Whines Incessantly About Free Republic!)

Gulf News ^ | 5/29/06 | Linda S. Heard (grab your tissues)

[BykrBayb]

If she'd ever peek out of her little bubble, she wouldn't be so ignorant. Then again, she needs her ignorance to survive in that bubble. Oh well. Just step over her. The road to freedom was paved with such fools, and must be patched with them from time to time.

[ArmyTeach]

My response to her ...
As you are writer of some erudition, I would appeal to you to consider several points.

You do not know that the Marines are guilty. Neither you nor I nor anyone else can know because the case has not come to trial and the evidence is not in. At this time all we have are confused reports and Hersey. Yet you see no problem in declaring our Marines tried and found guilty in the press. You have declared it so, therefore it must be so. American schoolchildren used to be taught that Americans were innocent until proven guilty. In any other context involving any other group or individual I am sure you would be appalled at the injustice before us, but - well - these are only Marines and good fodder for a political statement.

Secondly, the use of a staged massacre as propaganda strategy is not unknown or uncommon. It was practiced in Vietnam and attempted before in Iraq. It worked well then and it can work today precisely because too many Americans leap to judgment, think emotionally, react according to a political agenda rather than facts, fail to question the accusation and equally fail to place the responsibility for judgment within the proper venue - the courts, not the media.

Until such time as the Marines are found guilty in the proper course of justice, I will stand behind them against any propaganda from those who sought to kill them. Until then, to speculate is in itself an injustice.

C. Miller
Fairbanks, AK

[Humidston]

Theologian Howard Thurman is supposedly a Christian? And he says, "During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism."

He calls our warrior heroes haters?? I say, "A pox on this so-called theologian, on his house and on his bogus church!" His words are limp and empty - as are yours.

[BykrBayb]

Doctor Bayb would prescribe her one of these, to improve her vision, if not for the complications. They don't make them in a dosage that would be appropriate for this patient (anything above mild would send her system into lethal shock), and there's not one of them that would willingly agree to be taken by her. Prognosis is poor. Treatment is futile. No care shall be administered.

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

Dear Ms. Heard,

Please provide proof of "soldiers who purposefully assassinate women and small children".

Your story forgot to provide proof of assasination. It only provided evidence of accusations.

[D1X1E]

Ms Heard: Ignorance can be cured by knowledge. Stupid however is terminal. My condolences on your impending demise.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Thanks for the ping, Coop.

Y'all don't feed the troll. She has received more attention from the posters on this single thread than she gets from her half-vast readership in the Gulf in a week.

I'm going to have to blog on this tomorrow.

She is collaborating with Murtha to foment riots. They read gulfnews.com in Kabul.

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

"This is journalist talk for, "THEY'RE GUILTY! LET'S LYNCH 'EM!" "

Guess this jounalist does not believe in innocent until proven guilty. At least, not for those who give her the opportunity to work the job she has.

[timestax]

[JCEccles]

Ms Heard,

You didn't read very carefully. There are several posters at FR who were just as quick as you and John Murtha to condemn the Marines without benefit of trial.

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

"My bet is that the terrorist killed innocents just to blame it on the Marines for pr attention."

My thinking on this is, considering a 3 to 5 hour fight, and our troops being fired on, either: the terrorists killed the women and children, the terrorists used the women and children for human shields, or the women and children were the ones doing the firing on our troops.

I simply do not see our troops being fired on from 1 or more sources, and instead going into locations different than where the fire was coming from and killing anyone there.

[Humidston]

"As I said on my original posting......"

I bet she already does. ;-)

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

"It was many years ago, but it was indeed an honor."

Thank you for your sevice.

[Steve Van Doorn]

The LAT did a hit piece on that soldier a couple weeks ago.
I am really starting to get up set with the media :(

[BykrBayb]

I'm glad I missed that. I can't imagine how anyone could do a hit piece on him. I suppose anyone in their little bubble world is a barbarian if they don't hold their pinky just right when drinking Kool Aid.

[Hop A Long Cassidy]

>>>The outrage on Free Republic has to do with the fact that most of us here have seen this kind of bu!!$h!t smear time after time by the drive-by media, and we know that the likelihood is great that the crime never happened, or at least not as it has been characterized.

Weren't the Israeli's drawn and quartered over a Palestinian sniping their own kind and the death of the child getting blamed on the Israeli military that had been in a fire fight with them at the same time?

If so, then you'd think little Ms. Blame-America-First-And-Guilty-Before-Facts-Are-In would know about this gambit.

[hsalaw]

Military personnel should act as ambassadors for their country

Maybe in this writer's fantasyland. I thought the point of the military was to defend us from our enemies. Leave the "ambassadorships" to the pointy headed diplomats who blow smoke up each other's a**es.

[marc costanzo]

"Freedom of the Press, is the last refuge of the scoundrel,

and all other Liberals"

- - Marc Costanzo

The Pulitzer Prize is the modern 30 pieces of Silver"

- - M. C.

Patriotism is the love of one's country, - neither Liberals,
nor Lefties, can be accused of that !

Having served in the military in the past, does not a
loyal American make -
unless you count Benedict Arnold, Lee Harvey Oswald,
Al Gore, Oliver Stone, or John Kerry . . .

[CharlesWayneCT]

Agreed, I was parroting Murtha's position to note that, even IF true, his actions were indefensible.

[AnimalLover]

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