Haditha Marines and Duke LaCrosse players

American Thinker ^ | 6/2/06 | staff

[pissant]

Dean’s World has a great post drawing a comparison between the cases against the two groups.

...the press is in full troop-bashing mode, with 90% of Iraq coverage now focused on Haditha. And almost to a word, the articles are written with the assumption U.S. Marines have committed an atrocity; this before any serious look has been taken at the evidence.But there are problems with the narrative. First off, the doctor who certified the civilians as having been shot is, shall we say, not exactly objective. Secondly, the area is rather pro-insurgent, and witnesses may not be credible (remember the early reports of the Jenin “massacre?”). Third, given that the insurgents commit mass murders on a daily basis and understand propaganda, it’s not unreasonable to think they might have committed the atrocity themselves, then staged the area to give the impression it was coalition troops that had been responsible.Meanwhile, defense lawyers for the accused Marines are requesting drone footage, saying it will exonerate them. That doesn’t sound like something they would do if they thought the evidence would show them committing atrocities.Does this remind anyone else of the Duke lacrosse team rape case? Unreliable witness, exculpatory footage, a media that has already hung them…At the very least, our troops deserve the benefit of the doubt until tried. Hard to believe Memorial Day was only a few days ago, and already the media is spitting on our soldiers.

[ErnBatavia]

I don't know...maybe some of our active duty types (or those that were in closer than my 40 years ago!) can shed some light.

[RoadTest]

Yup. If you're white and American, you're automatically wrong.

[gondramB]

>> He said: "The truth will come out, as it has come out in Bosnia and Kosovo, as it has in other places where we've had these kinds of allegations.

"I must say that the evidence before us at the moment doesn't lead us to believe that the allegations are anything other than truthful and that therefore there are large numbers of civilian dead underneath these bulldozed and bombed ruins that we see." <<


BBC on in a story called "Jenin 'massacre evidence growing'"

[jimboster]

Here's a quote from a Washington Post story from some woman named Aine Donovan, who's the director of the Ethics Institute at Dartmouth College. I'm not exactly sure how "ethical" it is to declare someone gulity and the incident "the worst episode of the war" before the investigation has even been completed or made public.
"If you look at what happened in Haditha, you had soldiers stressed to the point of no return, and they snapped," Donovan said. "This will be remembered as the worst episode of this war. This will damage the entire profession. You're never going to restore peace by killing civilians."

[maxwellp]

Yes, The USMC, in my eyes can do no wrong. I don't care what the MSM say or anyone else for that matter. I believe in the Marines totally.