Haditha Marines you can do so by going to these sites.
Posted on 05/06/2007 4:57:38 AM PDT by RedRover
Also, see this recent thread: Propaganda Fear Cited in Account of Iraqi Killings
Unbelieveable how low the Marine Corps has sunk with this episode. Has there ever been a more determined witch hunt where the MC tries to destroy its own? This is being pushed by someone in the highest levels of the Corps or Navy, otherwise we would have never gotten to this sorry point.
MSM and our history profs will see to that.
the way is clear. When a war begins, the first course of action should be impound all the lawyers.
Lawyers second guessing commanders is ludicrous.
You got it, Bulldawg. Someone (maybe high up at the DoD, judging from all the leaks) wants to tame the Corps. At risk is the very nature of an aggressive fighting force, trained to always take the fight to the enemy. No offense to the Army, but they are not trained for the kind of fight that cleared Fallujah in ‘04.
A movie based on the battle of Fallujah is set for release in 08 (with Harrison Ford as Gen. Mattis). I don’t have any inside info, but grumblings have started that it will be the usual leftist twaddle.
It isnt the trial that I am interested in,its the verdict. Not Guilty.
The person that should be on trial is Murtha.
Can you imagine a lawyer following Patton or Bradley around Europe? I don’t understand how anyone thinks lawyers contribute to the only thing that matters—winning by destroying the enemy’s will to fight.
Amen to that.
Yes, it does appear someone(s) is pushing an agenda with the Haditha cases. Another incident happened in Ishaqi(sp?) close to the same time that Haditha was coming out. Similar incident of civilians, Iraqis claiming they were murdered without cause, may have even been some video. Someone in charge in the Marines shut the investigation down, but quick. An initial investigation was done, found no wrong-doing and NCIS was denied their own investigation {even though they said they would like to do one}. You don’t remember this incident now. The only reason I think NCIS was brought into Haditha was to create a case for charges. Without NCIS, no charges.
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Get the lawyers the hell out of there.What a bunch of feather merchants.
This investigation was the responsibility of the battalion, regimental, and divsion commander. If they failed to properly investigate, then they should be so charged, not some staff officer. The ultimate outcome of all of this will be the assignment of lawyers at all levels of command serving as political officers, undermining the commander and challenging his judgment, authority, and credibility. This will mean the end of the military.
Doesn't this really say it all. How can our combat troops win anything if they have lawyers in combat battalions looking over their shoulders.
Too bad the enemy doesn’t get their own set of lawyers, too. Then each side could just sue each other over grievances and skip the combat part of war. /sarc
This bothers me on so many levels that I just don’t know where to start... PC warfare run amok - lawyers overseeing decisions made in the heat of battle - the transparent attempt to use the Haditha incident as a propaganda tool for all the hate America Socialist antiwar cretins since Abu Ghraib didn’t make us cut and run...
I would say what I would like to do to Murtha and his ilk but I’m too much of a lady (plus I don’t want to get banned)
The one good thing that I found out about that movie is that it is based on Bing West’s book “No True Glory”. Bing West and his son (who served in Iraq) are writing the screenplay. That said - who knows what hollyweird will do with it from there...
That is precisely how the Democrats intend to fight the War on Terror. The John Edwards, Janet Reno’s, and Madeline Albright’s of the world will sue them into submission.
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