This whole Hidatha story stinks of "Mi Lai" all over again, only this time it's a Fake.
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1) Whatever happened in Haditha has yet to be determined. THe facts are not in, so any judgement at this point is premature, if not prejudicial.
2) The Marines deserve at least the same consideration the Left rushes to give to child molestors, crack whores, and Michael Jackson.
3) Even if it turns out the Marines went around the bend in Haditha, it is an exception that magnifies the rule.
4) Not one single ponce writing this inculpatory gibberish could withstand the rigors of combat deployment, let alone a firefight, so we have a classic case of armchair generalship.
I don't know for sure, but it seems possible that both a false report was filed and the Marines in custody did their jobs as they described. It may be the false report that got the officers dismissed, not the incident itself.
Ronald Spiers: You wanna know if they're true or not. The stories about me? Did you ever notice with stories like that, everyone says they heard it from someone who was there. Then when you ask that person, they say they heard it from someone who was there. It's nothing new really. I bet if you went back two thousand years, you'd hear a couple centurions standing around yakking about how Tertius lopped off the heads of some Carthaginian prisoners.
Carwood Lipton: Well, maybe they kept talking about it because they never heard Tertius deny it.
Ronald Spiers: Maybe that's because Tertius knew there was some value to the men thinking he was the meanest, toughest sonofab*tch in the whole Roman Legion.
Well said, Kathleen.
Our Marines have been framed by our mortal enemy, the Drive-by Media, and there are, apparently, wicked men in The Marine Corp who have put them in shackles.
I guess they would have treated these prisoners better if they had been Muslim prisoners.
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