[FreedomNeocon]

Thats all fine and good, I'm not talking about paying deference.

You seemed to indicate that the very fact there was an investigation for a few months, that there HAS to be something wrong.

I question that as a valid argument.

[HitmanLV]

No, I am saying that the people who have been hired to investigate this have been doing so and are convinced there was wrongdoing here. They know much more about it than any of us do (that's the deference I was talking about).

That they are convinced that there was wrongdoing isn;t to say that there HAS (emphasis yours) to be some wrongdoing, but it does show that the people who know most about this (and much more than any of us) think its more likely than not that the Marines in the issue behaved improperly.

I never made the argument you suggested, so get off it. I'm saying unambiguously that the people who know most about this, and who have studied it for months, think there's something to it.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

Thats all fine and good, I'm not talking about paying deference.

Why not? I pay deference to people I trust and give a back hand to those I don't all the time.