Tim McGirk Keeps Changing His Haditha Story

Sweetness & Light ^ | June 18, 2006 | N/A

[Sam Hill]

Amazing.

He can't tell the same story twice.

Or even once.

[Sam Hill]

A "what's going on here?" ping.

[Spunky]

BUMP!

[operation clinton cleanup]

Funny how Jack Murtha was not asked about his "cold blooded murder" accusation against the Marines on MTP today.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

BUMP

[xcamel]

Been a big fat frakkin lie from the get-go.
I'll bet almost anything that the homicidal terrorists shot all their "human shields" and split - just in time for the candid-camera-we-hate-america bunch to show up.

[demlosers]

Tim McGirk: So we contacted the Hammurabi human rights monitoring group, since we did stuff with them before, and we knew that they had very good contacts in the Sunni triangle and could get places that we couldn't get to. So, they came one day and they brought this horrendous video, and they didn't know that much about it, they just knew that it came from Haditha,

You go to the enemy asking for propaganda and then you believed it's true.

Are you an idiot or a traitor -- so which is it Mcgirk?

[MizSterious]

Yes, I believe it has been one enormous lie--aided and abetted by TIME. I think your theory is exactly how it will be shown to have happened, once the truth comes out.

[MizSterious]

I would check "all of the above."

[bray]

the 8 year-old's aunt who went out the back door with a baby, and her husband tried to follow her and he was shot and lay bleeding for six hours in the garden before he died.

There ain't no way they left a guy bleeding for 6 hrs. One lie, all lies. There are no valid witnesses, no validation of the tape and the only witness is Al Queda.

Free the Haditha Marines!!

Pray for W and Our Marines

[shield]

He's a traitor....writing a completely false story against our marines. In my books it's slandering our wonderful troops and this guy should be jailed!!!

What a treasonous bassturd!!!

[Paladin2]

Fire McGirk. He needs t0 be placed in the assbin 0f hist0ry like Rather.

[gunnedah]

When will Americans learn that the MSM has been taken over and being run by a bunch of lying,liberal kooks and the damn truth cannot be found in them. They write stories on pure speculation or they way they want them to be. The Democrats,Liberals and media are all left wing fanatics and it is time to put them out to pasture.
They say they support the military but they must remember the terrorist are not military and they are the one the MSM are supporting.They all are garbage and they sacrifice our people and our way of life to put crap out there. Maybe a lot of them need decapitating at least it would slow the lies down.

[Anti-Bubba182]

"The thing that convinced me that I had to do the story was when we got this 8 year-old girl who came and just told this absolutely horrifying story, and what convinced me about her story was that she only talked about what she knew. She wasn't being coached to talk about things she hadn't seen or witnessed directly..."

Was McGirk dropped on his head as a child? What is so hard about coaching an eight year old beforehand? More likely what convinced him was Time Magazine's well known fondness for anti-military stories and his eagerness to accomodate them. I notice he is now a shiny new bureau chief.

[Sam Hill]

Yes, that's a telling thing for McGirk to say. But he seems to be hopelessly naive (to be too find):

Haditha Reporter’s Thanksgiving With The Taliban | Sweetness & Light
http://www.sweetness-light.com/archive/times-haditha-reporter-had-thanksgiving-2001-with-taliban

But the real elephant in the room is that McGirk keeps changing the story on who made the videotape.

This one videotape is the primary "document" driving this story.

And now McGirk says that it was not shot by Taher Thabet.

So if Taher Thabet lied about shooting the video, maybe he lied about everything else?

This is an OUTRAGEOUS thing for McGirk not to know or to lie about.

[Mo1]

A "what's going on here?" ping.

It was a set up and Timmy believed the terrorists??

[MrCruncher]

Stinks.

[AmeriBrit]

She wasn't being coached to talk about things she hadn't seen or witnessed directly..."

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Of course she wasn't coached, just like the male at the morgue isn't waiting for a cue from whoever's making the video before starting his faux act over one of the bodies.[sarc]
This whole massacre incident has more holes than a kitchen colander and is a set up from the gitgo to make our troops look like the bad guys. McGirk's been around a long time and was anxious for his 15 minutes fame to start.

[petercooper]

Dump Murtha! Click the logo and donate to Diana Irey for Congress!

[mo]

IMHO, until some tort attorney steps in, this nonsense will always be with us. The deliberate, or negligent reporting or manufacture of "news", by professional journalists, has very real emotional and financial liabilities to the misrepresented soldiers and their families. I regard it as "journalistic malpractice"...it is not responsible for society and our nation to continue to tolerate this. These attempts to manufacture 'news' have an associated product liability, where proven false.