Posted on 02/20/2008 6:24:51 PM PST by RedRover
With luck my wife would be there, she feels the same.
Your point is well taken and Phil Brennan called McGirk on it today in the article Red linked to at the beginning of this thread......
”Frontline” accepted without question the legitimacy of the so-called Hammurabi Human Rights Association and allowed its alleged head man Abdul-Rahman al-Mashhadani to tell the story of the aftermath of Nov. 19, even though the organization consists solely of himself and one Thaer Thabit al-Hadithi — the original source of the video excerpts “Frontline” showed.
Both men are known insurgent propagandists whose communications were closely monitored by Marine intelligence officers. It was from those intercepts that the Marines were able to predict the Nov. 19 insurgent ambush in Haditha.
Moreover, “Frontline” neglected to inform viewers that the same Abdul-Rahman al-Mashhadani had just been released from almost six months captivity for insurgent activities. And al-Hadithi was considered a useful intelligence tool by Marines listening to him talk on his cell phone, as “My Men Are Heroes” author Nat Helms has also reported on the Defend Our Marines Web site.
He’s crosseyed, he won’t know where it came from.
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At 6'1", 195 lbs I can fix that.
I hope the day comes!
I’d like to be in the position to repeat your tagline to him, he’s a lying cockroach.
Maybe I’m just jaded but those coming out NOW are a little late for the bandwagon. I seem to remember a good number of the same bloggers damning the Marines initially. I guess it makes me angry cause we’ve all been fighting for so long to get the story out and now they start chiming in. But the good news is that the truth is finally getting out and the Defend Our Marines got a link from PBS!
Sorry for being little miss pissy-pants but there are so many of us that refused to swallow the media driven story from the get-go. It would have been nice to have some of these “big names” chiming in on this 2 years ago...
I was so pleasantly surprised by the show I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. Tim McGirk looked like a vindictive, pissy little pansy and a complete moonbat.
Cindie
I agree gardencatz. I was pleasantly surprised. This was a decent overview of Haditha. The producer was not biased against the Haditha Marines....if anything, I would say the documentary was more “fair” than I could ever expect. Arun Rath did an admirable job within an hour time constraint to tell the story of Haditha.
And he framed the story right with its title. This incident was always about the Rules of Engagement. McGirk and his merry band of insurgent “human right group” folks might have wanted to label it a “massacre”, but it was always about the Rules of Engagement. If this is how we trained them....if this is what we need....sometimes, this is what happens.
Funny, I said the same thing last night.
Exactly.
He's been that way since they stole his precious
save
I trust Brennan. If he didn’t like it, then I don’t like it.
I don’t disagree with you, Chick. Many were afraid of going out on a limb. Others were reluctant to criticize the military justice system. For whatever reason, too many sat on the sidelines when public opinion was still being formed. It makes our job all the harder now.
Awesome post by Phil Brennan-
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/frontline_haditha/2008/02/20/74083.html
I still think Frontline hid the little girls testimony about covering her ears in anticipation of a big explosion, shows they did not show enough balance. And they should have made mention that the Sunni insurgent McGirk dealt with was just that, an insurgent.
Post #36. Gotta hit the rack.
Quite stunning things Phil brought out regarding how the roads where repaved etc..
Indeed!
Haditha law, Feb 21, 2008
As the court-martial approaches for Marine Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, charged in the killings in Haditha in November 2005, prosecutors warned the judge in Camp Pendleton this week that testimony from fellow Marines would be contradictory and "begrudging," according to news reports.
But prosecutors will not be relying solely on testimony from Marines who were in Wuterich's squad the day 24 Iraqi civilians were killed after a a Marine lance corporal died in a roadside bombing.
A team of prosecutors and Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents is in Haditha this week to videotape depositions with witnesses to the shootings and also relatives of the dead Iraqis. Military defense attorneys will be present.
The team left from Al Asad in a heavily guarded convoy. Wuterich faces voluntary manslaughter and other charges. The videotaped depositions are meant to be used in his trial and those of another enlisted Marine and the battalion commander, prosecutors said.
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