[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

[em2vn]

A minor wound I would say.

[Gondring]

... [Time managing editor] Jim Kelly, I think wisely, said that it probably wasn't a good idea for us to go out to Haditha, and put our safety in the hands of the men that we were then going to turn around and accuse of having gone on a rampage and killed civilians.

I'd like to know whether any of the embedded ticks--oops, I mean, reporters--have ever seen any indication our Marines would harm them. How often did the Marines risk their lives for them? This crew is in fantasyland.

[brazzaville]

Good morning.
"Free the Haditha Marines!!"

It was heartening to see demonstrations in support of the Marines on FNC this morning.

"There ain't no way they left a guy bleeding for 6 hrs."

The enemy is trying to paint the incident as a prolonged rampage, a la My Lai 4. There seem to be plenty of living witnesses for something that took so long.

Michael Frazier