Why Did "Rights Group" Delay Revealing Haditha "Massacre"?

Sweetness & Light ^ | June 7, 2006 | N/A

[kindred]

The man has the look of the weasel, that is, the pathological liar.
Listening to Mike Savage interviewing the wife of a marine who is in jail and shackled even when talking to his own wife. The marines who fight the war are treated worse than any terrorist who murders innocent people and they did nothing but volunteer for the service.
An evil day when American soldiers are put in jail for doing their job.
Politicians are such scum.

[pissant]

Yes. Lt. Kimber met with locals for weeks after and did not hear boo about a "massacre".

[kindred]

[I smell Michael Moore and his terrorist cameramen again]

I smell scum pond left wing propaganda pushing liars along with the stench of cowardly right wing politicians. The best thing that could happen to America is the disappearance of the whole political establishment of America. Perhaps some other world aliens could abduct and torture the left wing fools(perhaps talking to them incessantly without meaning or content as they do to unsuspecting citizens)as a repayment for what they do all good willed citizens and soldiers.

[spunkets]

"Yes. Lt. Kimber met with locals for weeks after and did not hear boo about a "massacre"."

Kimber is a Capt with India Co. Capt McConnell spoke with the locals and they were not happy about these families being killed. McConnell told them it was a mistake.

[pissant]

I did not say he was there for the firefight. From The AP and FrontPage:

Notably, Kimber says he heard nothing about a civilian massacre during weekly meetings with the Haditha City Council and talks with local leaders. "It would have been huge, there would have been no question it would have filtered down to us," he said. "We reported no significant atmospheric change as a result of that day."

[sean327]

Something else that stinks about this accusation, is the fact that the mayor of Haditha thanked the US and the Marine Corps for liberating his city from terrorists when this operation was concluded. Nothing came out from anyone until four months later.

[pissant]

BTW, do you have a reference/link where Capt McConnell says it was a mistake?

[spunkets]

This was Kilo Co. Kimber was not involved and his talks with the city council are not related. McConnell's the one that talked to the mayor's group about the incident. If Kimber is involved at all, nothing about that's been mentioned.

""It would have been huge, there would have been no question it would have filtered down to us," he said."

I suppose Capt Kimber never knew about the bad press release.

[delacoert]

Have you looked at this article?

Haditha: Reason for Doubt

I don't think there's a thread on it.

[pissant]

If he had not heard of it while working next to Kilo, and having weekly meetings with the Haditha city council AND local leaders, that tells me this whole massacre business is MUCH MUCH less than meets the MSM's eye.

Go see this. The MSM's source.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645216/posts

[pissant]

There are already two threads on that one.

[spunkets]

"BTW, do you have a reference/link where Capt McConnell says it was a mistake?"

Yes, the fact that he agrees that everyone in the 2 houses were all collateral damage means just that. See the original Time article for the account of his telling the mayor it was a mistake.

[pissant]

I thought we realized that the Time article was mostly bunk. But yes, I'll go back again and look.

And paying $$ to dead civilians families does not implicate crime, only that they were collateral damage. And I'm growing alot more confident that the Marines did not kill them.

[pissant]

LOL, when I sent you to a thread link it was this one. I thought we were on another thread. I'm having a hard time keeping them all straight.

[SE Mom]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645267/posts

[okie01]

Why did they wait four months to tell anyone about this?

PR scam!!!

And the MSM swallowed the bait whole!

[spunkets]

" I'm growing alot more confident that the Marines did not kill them."

Sgt Wuterich, Capt McConnell, Lt Col Chessani and the Marine Corps agree that they did kill them. The folks from Kilo Co say that it was a mistake.

"paying $$ to dead civilians families does not implicate crime"

In this case it means the action taken was a mistake.

[spunkets]

"If he had not heard of it while working next to Kilo, and having weekly meetings with the Haditha city council AND local leaders, that tells me this whole massacre business is MUCH MUCH less than meets the MSM's eye."

Capt Kimber claims he was away from town during all of it. He went public claiming just that. He's claiming he never heard anything about it, he was out of town and that the Marine Corps is unjustly punishing him for it. Last I heard he was promising to go on SoCal radio claiming he's the same. link If Kimber is now saying he knows all about this, then he was probably relieved for lack of confidence, because he can't get anything straight.

[pissant]

From the Time article, the only reference I could find to a mistake is this:

Emad Jawad Hamza, led an angry delegation of elders up to the Marine camp beside a dam on the Euphrates River. Hamza says, "The captain admitted that his men had made a mistake. He said that his men thought there were terrorists near the houses, and he didn't give any other reason."

That's some guy named Hamza talking, not the Captain.

[pissant]

Read his quote. He does not KNOW about the "massacre" because he was fighting elsewhere that day. But he DOES know that following the "massacre" he heard nothing about it. From his fellow Marines, from Haditha City leaders and councilmen WHO HE WORKED WITH after that day. He heard about it from the press, which heard about if from the Hammurabi sources mentioned in this article.