Other Haditha stories on the net and elsewhere today (hat tip to ma)...
On the plus side...
On the negative side, two sources are still fuming about today's story in the New York Times, A Marine Tutorial on Media ‘Spin’
Another Iraqi witness in the case simply vanished, Sheldon said. “He slipped under the radar,” said Sheldon, who is based in Washington, D.C.
The investigators have slipped under the radar.
Mainly because they can't keep their lies straight.
Yo, Red. Scroll down to the third story-Lucian Reed. The link at the bottom now goes nowhere.
And now the coward McGirk, who was a scared bunny in Iraq, has turned yellow again and refuses to testify at the trial of the Marines he helped set up. Wow... What a scumbag... The perfect "face" of the fading TIME Magazine.
Timmy McGirk
Gee, no agenda here. And they wonder why the Marines reacted to mcgirk the way they did. Any other action would make them complicit in their own lynching.
I am proud of the Marines for realizing what a scumbag McGirk is and recognizing the truth about the media’s reports from Iraq. If IraqSlogger and Greg Mitchell had any shame whatsoever, they would be hanging their heads and being our soldiers and Marines for forgiveness. They are just mad they got caught.
I did notice that the Slimes didn’t bother to print the WHOLE memo which specified the true nature of McGirk’s “sources”... Nor did they mention that McGirk refuses to testify cause he’s a big fat liar...
Really? Then why are you able to spew this comment if you are dead?
The good news is that the media sees itself losing, so it’s piling up evidence to use to continue to trumpet the mythical “Haditha Massacre” even if the trials don’t take place, or if the soldiers are tried and found innocent.
The issue is NOT the lack of witnesses. The problem with the socialist/liberal/Murtha persecution of these Marines is that the evidence exhonerates the Marines. They can impeach all of the witnesses. They can show the veracity of the Marines’ stories by matching bullet holes and trajectories with laser. They can look at intel reports. They can look at the other events of that entire day in Haditha with this unit and others.
They are preparing to lose, but they’re also preparing a world-class excuse for why they’re really right and the Marines are really wrong. And since the media controls the media, their story will get out.
America continues to need a fast, truthful form of disseminating factual information. It does not exist yet, so the media gets to set the ground rules for any discussion.
Translation: the witnesses were all terrorists and would be exposed in trial.
Pray for W and Our Marines