I'm a "decorated combat Marine." I think that EX-Marine Jack Murtha is a disgraceful piece of trash, as are you. Neither of you bothers with the slightest presumption of innocence, as both of your articles drive home again and again.
I hope my comments were among those in 119 that you found especially disturbing. Trust me, the feeling is mutual.
The difference, of course, is that one of us is actually familiar with combat.
The real problem here, Ms. Heard, is that we don't KNOW that these men committed this crime. You have them already tried and convicted. 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. Given that you are undoubtedly fair-minded, I expect to see your apology and retraction when we are proved right, as I am sure we will be.
Military personnel should act as ambassadors for their country and behave according to international rules of law and the Geneva Conventions that were drawn up as a result of atrocities committed during the Second World War. There should be a difference between real soldiers and ruthless thugs with public opinion the final arbiter.
Marines, as a group, are some of the finest citizens this country produces. Remember the line from "The Marine Corps Hymn" that talks about "to keep our honor clean"? It's their THEME song. I'm sure you've probably never heard it, or if you have, you haven't contemplated the words.
If the public, as represented by the 119 posters on the Free Republic website, condones such behaviour or seeks to excuse it, then not only is its members giving their country's soldiers a license to kill arbitrarily, they are altering the fundamental psyche of their nation.
First, you have a subject / verb agreement in the first sentence in the paragraph. That nit pick aside, the sentence itself makes no sense. How is a right wing website that has about 100,000 posters, an almost statistically insignificant portion of the American populace, changing the psyche of the American public?
In short, people who glorify soldiers who purposefully assassinate women and small children are as misguided as those who glorify the blowing up of crowded buses, trains and marketplaces.
Alright, I'm starting to get p!$$ed. How do you jump from us defending the men who are most likely being railroaded, to saying we glorify assassins? John Kerry admits to having been witness to, and having committed war crimes. He was a few thousand votes in Ohio from being President. What do you have to say about his actions?
Finally, my screen name is vindicated. I feel so much better, and it's all about feelings, isn't it?
I'd suggest that all left-wing, moon-bat, "journalists" echoing Murtha (including YOU) be considered traitors until proven otherwise. I thought we tried cases in the courtroom, not the media.
In any event, we all anxiously await your defense.
After much deep contemplation this Memorial Day on the sacrifice in blood of the many brave soldiers who have maintained the arduous trails of freedom.
Dead soldiers are the foundation stones of this Greatest Nation on Earth, and the living fighting soldiers are the ones who are paying the mortgage so that I can enjoy this freedom and prosperity.
War is ugly, sadly, innocent people get hurt when cowards use civilians as sheilds
soldiers get hurt and wars get lost when political strife divides the mission.
Your foolish words have prompted me to make another much larger donation this day to the Diana Irey campaign fund.
It is the very least I can do to support our troops.
Semper fi!
She's just mad that everyone's not jumping on the lynch the Military bandwagon. Muthra is a poor example of an ex-marine and a shame to my home state: I only wished I can be one to vote again this "rotten to the core" leftist.
I take it she is writing from the confines of her office on our shores about an event that happened halfway around the global and assumes that everything happened as she was told.
If you want to pony cash to help the civilian deaths like you b@tch about the 9-11 survivors got, then do it. Most of those billions were raised by US citizens not the military/government. Quit this leftist "lets solve the problem" with tax money.
War causes deaths of anyone who in the operational area, which it is a shame when civilian population gets harmed but no war would have been won if the military had to walk on eggshells to win.
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Linda, pull your head out of your ***, and start writing about french food.
It appears that Mizzzzzzzz Heard has already convicted the Marines in her own tiny, fevered mind......
I am not sure if any of my comments were on that thread she referenced...BUT, it seems to me that it was MURTHA that was trying to find "excuses" for behaviour he had already convicted the Marines of participating in.
I think it was the freepers that were asking for facts and a trial before convicting anyone.
I thought THAT was the American Way...and sure seems more patriotic to me, than a couple of loudmouths proclaiming them guilty without benefit of a completed investigation or a trial.
To Ms Heard: Oh would that your heart would bleed so passionately for the victims of terrorism, many of which are our armed forces which you so blithely condemn on Memorial Day! Please do the country a favor and dry up and blow away.
Surely, nobody should pronounce guilt without knowledge of the facts. .....as you and Murtha have done. Let the process play itself out.
murtha : Pay attention
You have been hanging around to long with cut and run hanoi kerry
The Brothers and Sisters on The Wall know what you have done.
And before you complain about me, I was there also.
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Marine NOT afraid to not be "PC" Ping!
Young Marine Blasts Rep. Murtha at Town Hall Meeting
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1558047/posts
"Yes sir my name is Mark Seavey and I just want to thank you for coming up here. Until about a month ago I was Sergeant Mark Seavey infantry squad leader, I returned from Afghanistan. My question to you, (applause)
"Like yourself I dropped out of college two years ago to volunteer to go to Afghanistan, and I went and I came back. If I didn't have a herniated disk now I would volunteer to go to Iraq in a second with my troops, three of which have already volunteered to go to Iraq. I keep hearing you say how you talk to the troops and the troops are demoralized, and I really resent that characterization. (applause) The morale of the troops that I talk to is phenomenal, which is why my troops are volunteering to go back, despite the hardships they had to endure in Afghanistan."
The newspaper employee finally gets it: let there be an investigation and evidence of wrong doing, charges and trials (if warranted) -- then convictions, if found gulity.
You are a fawning terrorist apologist who is taken seriously by nobody outside of the echo-chamber of your own far-left ideology. Quit your infantile whining and get over your sorry self.
This b-tch is an unabashed liar and a fraud. I read through those posts, mine was one of them, and few if any could be interpreted as saying "way to go guys!" We are merely reserving judgment until all the facts are known. And as I pointed out in my comment on that thread, these troops will be held accountable, appropriately, if they are found guilty unlike happens among the Muslim terrorists who regularly murder civilians for sport! But then being a well-known Tokyo Rose type who loves all things Arab and works out of the UAE I guess she would have no appreciation for democratic principles like innocent until proven guilty. But if they are guilty, the terrorists themselves deserve a big share of the blame for creating an environment of chaos and murder in Iraq. Yet will Ms. Heard EVER write a column about the many murders a day of Iraqi innocents that her heroes the terrorists carry out as their approve tactics??
Maybe if they would be REAL men who would come out into the open and fight like real men instead of the abject cowards they are using sissified stand off tactics like road side bombs, they wouldn't be creating an atmosphere of suspicion and frustration such that incident like this alleged act would occur. I'm amazed our men have been as disciplined and respectful of civilians as they have in this environment. As I said on my original posting, "Go screw yourself Ms. Heard!"
Ms. Heard - go get yourself laid. It would do you some good. (Apologies to George Kennedy)