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2006-06-02 Iraq

Is the Haditha story "ahead of the news cycle?"

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Posted by Mike 2006-06-02 14:49|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The Seditionist media have never stopped spitting on our Soilders. Except for a very few individual reporters the media is and has been in the camp of our foes. This just is a long awaited chance to accomplish with their propaganda what they can't get away with otherwise. The MSM do not support our troops or our counrty.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-06-02 15:32|| 2006-06-02 15:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Similar commentary from blogger Wretchard, in reaction to a story in the lefty rag The Nation:

One internal problem with the Nation's narrative, which will be invariant to any outcome of the investigation immediately jumps out. The assertion that it was all "willful, targeted brutality designed to send a message to Iraqis" is immediately contradicted by a recitation of how it was 'covered up' -- "the patently false story floated afterward, blaming the killings on roadside bombs, and Marine payoffs to survivors". Note to whoever is in charge of sending messages of terror to the Iraqis: terror is no good unless you publicize it; if you conceal your message with false stories, or blame roadside bombs and worst of all, if you pay money to survivors then you are missing the point. Any halfwit knows that the right way to sow terror is to leave corpses hanging from lampposts, skulls piled before the city gates or decapitate victims in a studio and distribute the video through Al Jazeera.

Posted by Mike 2006-06-02 15:34|| 2006-06-02 15:34|| Front Page Top

#3 "I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast."

William Tecumseh Sherman

Posted by doc 2006-06-02 15:41|| 2006-06-02 15:41|| Front Page Top

#4 The "local atrocity blamed on the USMC" theory doesn't wash - the Marines initial report said they shot these people, or at least some of them. The question is why and how.

The points about the local witnesses and the doctor are real, and I hope the drone footage is exculpatory, but let's not try to make the Marines less involved then they claim to be themselves.

Posted by Spomoling Glineck8648 2006-06-02 17:04|| 2006-06-02 17:04|| Front Page Top

#5 HA!!

US Troops Cleared in Iraqi Deaths

Fuck you Murtha, Fuck you MSM

Posted by DarthVader 2006-06-02 17:10|| 2006-06-02 17:10|| Front Page Top

#6 What Lord Vader said...and then some.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2006-06-02 17:12|| 2006-06-02 17:12|| Front Page Top

#7 US Troops Cleared in Iraqi Deaths

That's about Ishaqi, not Haditha.

Not that it has stopped ABC radio news from referring to "massacres" in the plural in their hourly reports.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-06-02 17:42|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-06-02 17:42|| Front Page Top

#8 What I find most interesting about this, is the report from one of the commanders, that in town meetings afterwards, nothing of this was ever mentioned.

And after reading some reports of these town meetings, these guys are vocal! You just know they would have brought this to the attention of the Marines.

Posted by Sherry 2006-06-02 17:43|| 2006-06-02 17:43|| Front Page Top

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