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.
"" Free Republic website, condones such behaviour or seeks to excuse it, ""
Objective reporting, eh Mizz Heard??
There are way too many linda Hurd's around...they proliferate like flies on a dead skunk - in this case the corrupt and bloated Murtha.
""Oddly, none of them displayed any hint of disquiet over the behaviour of the Marines under investigation. Rather, their outrage was reserved for John Murtha and yours truly. ""
Yeah, don't let an investigation get underway, just call em murderers. After all all Marines are murderers, eh, Mizz Heard??
Mizz Heard, you are a vile contemptable human being. Thank you for your opinion, based purely on hatred.
"A few of his co-posters rushed to the website of Murtha's Republican challenger Diana Irey to donate campaign funds."
Yep, you're right. I did go to Irey's site and donate money. Hell I even went to the Persian Gulf and donated some of my life back in 87-88, in order EARN the right to donate my f'in money to anyone I damn well please. Hell, I even did it to defend your right to spew your fetid Barbara Streisand in whatever Islamo-commie paper you "write" for.
As for Murtha, I think that if he had a shred of decency he would allow the very effective and objective military legal system to do its job prior to convicting these Marines in the court of public opinion.
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.
Well said, Coop!
And may God continue to bless you and yours!
Has this woman SEEN any solid evidence that these Marines were "murderous"? If she hasn't then she's accusing them falsely. If she's relying on the word of a few 'witnesses' in Haditha, and rejecting any testimony of the Marines, then she's a fool. I'm sure that the witnesses can be bought with simple threats against their families.
If the Marines had been under fire, they had every right to go after their attackers. If there attackers were hiding behind women and children, as they are wont to do, then the Marines didn't 'murder' them, they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. It happens all the time in war, and even though our soldiers have gone out of their way, sometimes to the point of death, to keep from having to shoot through civilians to get to the terrorists, sometimes they can't NOT kill innocent bystanders. That is a FAR CRY from flying off the handle and murdering civilians because they simply are angry that they were attacked. I haven't seen any evidence that THAT is what they did.
Funny how zero level of proof was required by the liberals when Klinton was bombing the Balkans for 73 days and his domestic ATF mod squad was kicking in doors without warrants, searching houses without warrants, and burning down houses with residents still inside.
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.
Fear the power of the pajamahadine!
These people are pathetic, Ms. Heard isn't going to like
the altering of the fundamental psyche of the nation after
the next terror strike when one of our cities lies in ruins.
Did anyone mention that being the product of the radical left makes it just about certain that if they ever "win", she will be one of the first to get the "ax" as it were.
Pitiful small minded 5th column wannabees.
Go read the constitution, biach.
We Freepers have given our soldiers license to kill arbitrarily? What B.S.
Nuke 'em all and let Allah sort them out!
Regards,
VR
ROTFLMAO!!!!
Exactly! And not only a presumption of innocense - but they always have a rush to judgement but then yell at us if we judge them. They are never willing to just let the facts come out and the hearings be held.
Men sometimes do things in war because of stress - I'd rather wait and see what the investigation reveals.
Ms. Heard,
Have you ever heard of the phrase innocent until proven guilty. As a former Marine and current Federal Law Enforcement Officer it absolutely disgusts me to have to protect people like you.
Ms. Heard, since it is obvious you LURK around here on FreeRepublic, I am sure you will read my message.
In our country you are INNOCENT until proven GUILTY, so therefore we will not condemn the Marines until such time as they are proven guilty.
On the other hand you and Murtha are low life's for having done so.
Right on, Coop.
I'm sure this guy realizes the one fact that he convieniently omits from his rebuttal:
Freepers don't want to protect the guilty, but if a common crack dealer deserves a presumption of innocence, then that's the least we can give to a group of Marines that have to endure what those guys do on a daily basis.
If these Marines are ultimately proven guilty of what Pelosi's lap dog accuses them of, then I don't have the slightest problem with the harshest sentence a court chooses to impose. But to assume guilt, when none of us, Murtha included, know what happened, is simple political grandstanding at the expense of those Marines.
Unfortunately, the left's tendency to presume the worst of those in uniform and not give the military any benefit of the doubt has its intended effect of slowly undermining support for the mission.
What would they call Murtha during WWII?
I have see these scum before.
When the communists tried to take over Greece after WWII they too spoke like Murtha.
Murtha seems to be one of those soldiers who thought of his medals as votes in the ballot box.
sad.