A 'Defining Atrocity'? Yes, Against Our Marines

Town Hall ^ | 1-04-08 | Diana West

[smoothsailing]

Haditha Marines Ping.

[jazusamo]

Good article by Diana West! Thanks for posting, Smooth.

HADITHA MARINE PING

[pissant]

When does fat bastard hang for treason?

[jazusamo]

If it was to be tomorrow it wouldn’t be soon enough for me!

[pissant]

He should have been feeding worms long ago, IMO

[luvadavi]

God help all our fighting men, and women in those hellholes. I am so angry about this I shouldn8t be even posting, its hard to be coherent!! Another time. No intervention by the President. There will be a special place in hell for him, for scum of the earth Murtha and Tim McJerk; plus the brass who have no guts nor balls to stand up for their men. Thank you smoothsailing for posting this and you chose a very fine writer, Diana West.

[smoothsailing]

As 2008 begins, Haditha hysteria still blights the lives of all the men who were implicated, not just the soldiers remaining in legal limbo. But what about the accusers who trumpeted the worst of the charges? Are they accountable for tarnished reputations? Terminated careers? Legal bills? Outrage? Night sweats?

This said it all for me, Jaz.

I don't like getting angry, it's not my nature. But all of those, Murtha, McGirk, the NCIS, etc.; have incensed me throughout this travesty that has befallen these Marines. I want justice, and torment and reckoning for those who would deny it.

The price must be paid by those who would use our bravest defenders as political fodder for their own ideologies and agendas.

[Lancey Howard]

Excellent column! (I can't even bug her for using "Marines" and "soldiers" interchangeably, and Diana DID capitalize "Marines" whenever she used the word, as is traditional.) But more important than that trivial grammar stuff, Diana has summed up the atrocity against our Marines very nicely.

It is an obscene disgrace that, because of a story written by a reckless, dishonest TIME reporter who was duped by a couple of enemy propagandists, military commanders and their civilian bosses decided to throw eight good, heroic Marines under the bus just so they could appease the liberal "mainstream" press and one fat congressman. It makes me throw up in my mouth a little.

[smoothsailing]

I'm with you all the way, Lancey.

(See my post #8)

[pinkpanther111]

The judge has yet to rule on this matter, but I, for one, hope he orders up the interviews. What is said may reveal that the Iraq war has indeed produced its "defining atrocity" -- against our own Marines.

Yes this is the money shot. The atrocity IS against our own Marines! Good Article

[jazusamo]

Well said, Smooth, you’re right on the money!

Justice will not have been served until those bearers of false witness pay a price for their despicable actions. I doubt they will ever pay that price but they all know what they did and will have to live with it until their dying day. I suppose there is some justice in that but not nearly enough, IMO.

[smoothsailing]

Justice will not have been served until those bearers of false witness pay a price for their despicable actions.

You've got it right, Jaz.

And so does Panther...

The atrocity IS against our own Marines!

The self-anointed mighty can be humbled and brought low when they cross the line, as Murtha and his ilk have done. Keep the pressure on, all of us must.

I'm turning in, tomorrow we march again.

[lilycicero]

Good points...too bad it’s all true.

[Gene Eric]

>> the newspaper bellyached, "may well have ended prosecutors' chances of winning any murder convictions in the killings."

Is this their definition of winning; to thrive for the prosecution of those serving our Country regardless of truth and the circumstances of war?

[jazusamo]

Sadly this is yet another example of the enemedias bias against our military.

[fatima]

Thanks for the ping jazusamo.

[Marine_Uncle]

Foremost in our thoughts are for the four Marines yet facing charges to be fully cleared. Hanging the fat one from the main mast will not correct this terrible mistrial. Facts are facts, and none of them deserved any charges to be brought against them from day one.

[freema]

ping

[smoothsailing]

Foremost in our thoughts are for the four Marines yet facing charges to be fully cleared.

Uncle, you are exactly right. The complete exoneration of all of our Haditha Marines must remain our top priority.

Those who brought this upon them can be dealt with by us as well, but I totally agree with you, first our efforts must remain focused on the Marines. THESE MARINES DESERVE NO LESS.