[jazusamo]

Puckett has maintained from the outset that while the deaths at Haditha are regrettable, they were a consequence of a legitimate response to being attacked and nothing like Murtha's characterization.

That pretty much says it all.

But for the pathetic and biased reporting by Tim McGirk of TIME and the outrageous remarks by John Murtha on worldwide TV this incident would have been a sad one but not a criminal one.

Six Marines had the charges dropped against them and a seventh was found not guilty of all charges in a courts-martial. That should make it very clear there was no wrong doing on the Marines part despite the rantings of Murtha and McGirk.

Thanks for linking Nat Helms' latest article, Smooth, he doesn't interview Gary Solis and take his opinions as gospel.

[wtc911]

I wrote a screenplay based on the eye-witness accounts and one-on-one interviews with some of the Marines involved. I also was given access to priveleged material. The film will never be made (I knew that going in but it was worth six months of my time to get it right).

Anybody who wants to read it let me know via freep-mail and we'll arrange it.

[Saoirise]

Exactly Jaz.

What Mark Walker and every other MSM reporter omits in their reporting is that Haditha on 11/19/2005 was under a CITY WIDE ATTACK, not just the one incident at Chestnut and Viper.

FYI - Final motion hearings are next week Thurs and Fri 8/26 and 8/27 at Camp Pendleton

[Girlene]

Well said, jaz. Gary Solis asks, “When does lawful combat turn into murder. This case will go far in answering that question.”

Gary Solis needs to read the charges. There is no murder charge against SSgt Wuterich. The worst charge preferred againts Wuterich is voluntary manslaughter and even that was way beyond anything the presiding judge over the Article 32 recommended.

According to the article, bringing charges in this incident was the defining point in how/why we have our current ROE’s. That’s really working well, isn’t it? Hopefully the jurors keep this in mind when deciding Frank’s fate.

160 years???!!!! For what? Because the Marine Corps wants to send a message? Because the prosecutors want to prove they didn’t really waste all this time, money, and effort on an incident that, while regrettable, was within the ROE’s at the time? Because the convening authorities involved don’t want to admit they might be guilty of UCI?