[jazusamo]

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

HADITHA MARINE PING

[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.

[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?

[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.