Posted on 05/29/2006 6:12:03 PM PDT by Marli
Only hours after Iraqi civilians were killed, a second team of Marines was sent in to take the victims' bodies to a local morgue.
Lance Corp. Ryan Briones was among the Marines sent in to recover the bodies, and he told the Los Angeles Times he is still haunted by what he saw, including a young girl who was shot in the head.
"[The victims] ranged from little babies to adult males and females," Briones told the newspaper. "I can still smell the blood."
Briones says he and another Marine were told to photograph the bodies. Military officials say those photos — which they say show people shot at close range in the head and chest — clearly contradict initial reports that the civilians were killed by a roadside bomb.
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gAyBC smear bump
Covering your wrinkled a** until retirement, eh, Jack?
I can still smell the B.S.
Abu Ghraib was a prank that turned into red meat for the press.
Haditha may turn out to be a banquet for the press.
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This incident is a 'wait and see'. It could be very bad in many ways.
Probably shot by the homicidal terrorists on the way out the back door.
No film, no proof.
Perfect set up for the press.
This was an incident and it was not a war crime whatsover. It is not at all a pattern of behavior of our troops. In fact in a 3 years presence of our troops in Iraq we have a rare incident like this one where our military is consistently present and fighting in civilian centers, the rare type of these incidents is a miracle by itself, any other army in the world fighting this type of war would have committed much more than this rare incident, all this is a great testimony of the extreme discipline and professionalism of our troops.
God bless our troops.
As with most military tasks, no one is better at this than the U.S. military.
I'm sick at the way the left is going to pounce on this, but there's nothing we can do about that.
Lance Corp. Ryan Briones was among the Marines sent in to recover the bodies, and he told the Los Angeles Times he is still haunted by what he saw, including a young girl who was shot in the head. "[The victims] ranged from little babies to adult males and females," Briones told the newspaper. "I can still smell the blood."How exactly is this a "smear?"
Lance Corp. Ryan Briones was among the Marines sent in to recover the bodies, and he told the Los Angeles Times
Damn it, what is this Marine talking to the press for.....
Sorry, this is an eyewitness. A Marine.
I agree. I don't like the people on the left who are ready to convict. And I don't really care for a few on the right who say no crime could have possibly been committed. We'll have to wait and see.
I get the sneaking suspicion that these wounds will be from a Ak-47 and not an M-16. And if they are from a M-16 it was from a weapon that was not in the hands of a US Marine.
"...this is an eyewitness..."
excuse me?
I'm pretty sure that that was one of the first things the investigators checked.
Well. There goes the military investigation. So much for innocent until proven guilty. Jughead here can't keep his big mouth shut. Dat you Jesse?
You are going to defend our troops from this coming liberal media offensive aren't you?
Listen Marli, you start sounding like a DUmmy troll here, just be careful.
At some point, you are going to have to drop the ridiculous defenses and insults and realize that something very bad happened here, and it appears to have been covered up. There is way too much smoke for there not to be fire.
It's a wait and see but not for the media. Someone needs to remind ABC that their erroneous report on Hastert being under investigation was laughed at by ABC's own staffers.
Someone needs to remind Time Magazine that a judge determined Matt Cooper's papers can be sent to Libby's defense team because of discrepancies. (Credibility?)
The media needs to be watched and reminded constantly of their problems reporting on this story. They are want to be on the hunt on this. Hopefully, someone will make a big mistake.
Briones' best friend, Lance Cpl. Miguel "T.J." Terrazas, had been killed earlier that day by the roadside bomb. He was still grieving when he was sent in to clean up the bodies of the Iraqi civilians, his mother said.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/14690460.htm
This story, and especially the quote that you highlighted, is Stalin's "one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic" demonstrated at a working level.
The press is going to work this BS for all it's worth. I have no patience for people with no sense of history or proportion, and the press and their sycophants are historically illiterate boobs.
Such idiots are easily fooled. Knowhutahmean?
If two or more Marines in that unit testify that there were atrocities committed, than I will call for those Marines involved to be Court Marshalled. Until then..... They are INNOCENT
So why would a second team of Marines take photographs if they were in cover-up mode, Mr. Murtha?
And you sound like someone who wants to deny that something very serious happened here.
And lay off the "DU troll" nonsense. Somebody(s) lost control and may have killed 24 innocent civilians for no reason.
This incident is only now being investigated because it was hidden from the higher ups at the Pentagon for over three months.
If what is alleged happened, this is Abu Ghraib times ten.
Certainly not any crime, an eyewitness of several dead people... sure
I predict there will be a Lt. Calley coming out of this.
The way the article reads to me, this Marine didn't witness the event but rather the aftermath.
Lance Cpl. Briones told his mother he saw the bodies of 23 dead Iraqis.
Susie Briones got a panicked call that day from her son, who said he did not see the shootings but was told by his supervisors to go into the houses and remove the bodies. He brought along a digital camera that his mother had given him before he left for Iraq.
One of the bodies was a little girl who had been shot in the head, Susie Briones said.
"He had to carry that little girl's body," she said, "and her head was blown off and her brain splattered on his boots."
Briones' best friend, Lance Cpl. Miguel "T.J." Terrazas, had been killed earlier that day by the roadside bomb. He was still grieving when he was sent in to clean up the bodies of the Iraqi civilians, his mother said.
Ryan Briones told the Los Angeles Times that he'd been interrogated twice by Navy investigators while in Iraq. He turned over his digital camera but did not know what happened to it after that.
"They wanted to know if the bodies had been moved or tampered with," said Briones, who has not been interviewed by Navy investigators since he returned from Iraq in April
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On Monday, both Marines were back at Camp Pendleton, near Oceanside, where base officials said several members of Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division were being confined during the investigations.
Lt. Lawton King, a Camp Pendleton spokesman, declined to comment Monday, but another Marine there reflected on the damage the reports have done.
Nicholas Grey, a second lieutenant in the Marine Reserves based at Camp Pendleton, said the case will result in a loss of credibility for the Marines and increase Iraqi anger.
"It will make it a lot harder for the Marines who want to go through the streets," he said.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/14690460.htm
Been around long? This is an old VC trick. They'd go into villages and wipe them out. Made it look just like the U.S. military did it. This IS like "another Vietnam." Not in Iraq. It's like "another Vietnam" right here in the good old U.S.of A. Jane Fonda must be smirking. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. It was illegal for this little Jughead to talk about this to the press. Hopefully, if he really is in the Marines, they've carted his goatsmelling ass off to the brig.
You really summed up my feelings and made excellant points. thanks for the post.
Marli has been banned; troll.
The enemy likes to use civilians as cover for the attack they are about to launch. Then the turdbucket Murthas go nuts about the G'I's "attacking" civilians unprovoked. War is hell, ain't it Joe?
It's obvious that something very bad happened there, and that our troops offed some civilians. It's an anecdote - not the rulebook of the US military.
I contrast this situation with the willingness of the press to maintain the fiction of the "Religion Of Peace" for the last 5 years.
Put your hair out Sink, the facts are not out yet, don't be a tool for the left!
My Lai maszacre all over again. The MSM and leftwing will use it to demoralize US support for the war by arguing that our troops are too stretched out and stressed out by GWB that some of them finally snapped. It is not the troops fault, it is GWB'as fault for putting them into an unmangageable situation. Argument would be get the troops home before more will snap.
Yesterday there was a letter to the editor in the Washington Post by a Marine or soldier who was accused of murdering Iraqis. Once the investigation began and the facts came out, he was found innocent.
He reminded people in that letter that we don't have all the facts yet and that people should not jump to conclusions one way or the other.
So your post is right on target and I thank you for it.
This whole thing is getting curiouser and curiouser, BUT, when I saw that this article is an ABC NEWS source..
Well, we know how careful they are with facts, don't we??
I'm not seeing a coverup as much as I'm seeing the jihadis pulling their standard "let's start a firefight, massacre a bunch of civilians using American weapons and blame it on them.".(They tried it in the mosque in baghdad, but there were too many witnesses.).
There is no 'smoke' here. It's a standard tactic used by an enemy that knows our press, and many politicians, will buy it and relieve the intense pressure they are getting.
24 innocent people may have been killed, and you're worried that one of the Marines recovering the bodies talked to the press?
Them's screwed up priorities there, bud.
More info here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1640366/posts
Any idiot that argues this way obviously has NO idea about the military or military history.
The military is trained to break things and kill people. It's what they do.
I don't get mad at a table saw because it put a gash in my hand.
My God, We owe these Marines nothing less and Sink should know better than to fall for this crap
Tell that to the dozen Marines who may be prosecuted for various crimes, including murder.
Whoever was in command of this unit is in serious, serious trouble.
How about having someone that wasn't there talking to the press could screw up the inevstigation, or do you even care if we have an investigation at all?
Let's just try them in the press.
Sorry, he isn't an eyewitness to the incident, just its aftermath.
you need to read better , witness to aftermath only stupid
nothing like My Lai
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