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.
I suppose that means we should have a formal tea with the insurgents before killing them?
It's also highly irresponsible the way the AP and other leftist media are assuming so much credibility in allegations of US misconduct by people in the Sunni provinces of western Iraq. The Sunnis and former Baathists are the heart of the Iraqi insurgency. The Sunnis were the dominant minority under Saddam and they don't want to give up minority rule to the majority rule of a new democracy. That's why they're fighting this insurgency. So of course people in the Sunni provinces have a (barely) hidden agenda to do anything they can to push the US military out of Iraq so that the Sunnis can try to take power again and reinstall minority rule. That includes making false allegations in an attempt to undermine support for the Iraq war in the US. Therefore nothing that people say about the US military in the Sunni provinces can be assumed to be true. Instead, the media should assume that allegations against the US military made in the Sunni provinces are false until such allegations are proven true.
Once again, the AP is proving itself to be the de facto propaganda agency for the DNC and leftists throughout the western world. Very rarely does the AP report on the mass murder of civilians by Saddam's government or the ways in which life has improved in Iraq since Saddam was removed from power. Very rarely does the AP report on the bravery and heroism of US troops in Iraq. The lack of balance and fairness in AP reporting on Iraq is disgraceful.
Nobody should assume the guilt of troops based upon the reports from those organizations who oppose the U.S. in general either.
Nobody he said that or believes that.
Heard is just one of those America haters that can't wait to call our troops babykillers. She's probably getting wet just thiking about it.
"The fact that this murdering troop"...[Gee, Ms. Heard, whatever happened to the vaunted "presumption of innocence" that liberal air-heads such as you always insist on for no less than Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, his murders and his supposedly-nonexistent WMDs? These marines are already tried and convicted in your demented head, Ms. Heard. Apparently you are uncritical of "the story"...despite multiple sources of evidence that it was a phony. Jihadist 'student's' and Jihadist "reporter"...Johnny on the spot...multiple versions by a child who revealed the complicity of their own family...]
"...has the support of even those 119 posters is worrisome."
[ Ms. Heard thinks to herself, DAMNATION! These people are smart. They aren't swallowing the Kool-Aid! Blast, this is EXTREMELY WORRYING BECAUSE we are going to be SO EXPOSED as liars just like Dan Blather...we have to attack them RIGHT AWAY! Marginalize them SOMEHOW! ]
"...Surely, nobody should defend the indefensible based on some false notion of patriotism. "
Isn't it interesting how the liberal anti-patriots suddenly try to lecture conservatives on patriotism? Suddenly these people who preached moral relativism against any kind of patriotism whatsoever, and preached presumption of innocence and defended the Jihadists and Saddam Hussein...suddenly espouse the view that something is "indefensible"? In other words there is suddenly something so heinous that both moral relativism and their presumption of innocence is just "indefensible...." but only apparently when it applies to U.S. Marines.
Speaking of patriotism, I don't think Ms. Heard would know or appreciate that she is unfit to have patriotism of any kind for the U.S., false notion or otherwise...due her own putrid self-righteousness devoid of due process...or rule of law...or innocence until proven guilty...beyond a reasonable doubt.
She must be as pleased as can be that this article has garnered over 500 responses so far as opposed to the 120 or so her previous column generated.
If you examine the track record of the U.S. military and the terrorists, it is clear who has absolutely no scruples about killing civilians of any age, sex, confession or nationality.
As for that jerk Murtha there is no excuse. He's simply a giant windbag.