And then there was one.

Foxnews:Military Judge Drops Charges Against Marine In Haditha Killings Case

Now there is only one more Marine that needs to be cleared.

If the enemy hides behind a noncombatant, you have not only a legal, but a moral duty to neutralize the threat, even if the noncombatant gets hurt.

That didn’t happen here.
24 dead civilians, no weapons found, no enemy identified. 24 compensation payments made.

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On June 16th, 2008 at 11:13 pm, ezupirate75 said:

I very much agree.

To all those thinking that this will cornr Murtha into an admission of guilt/stupidity: he’s going to say that “they weren’t found innocent — charges were dropped! I still believe they’re guilty.” or some-such along those lines.

Its the same thing most of the Lft said abt the Duke players after that railroad job was exposed. Even declaring them innocent didn’t stop the Libs frm claiming “insufficient evidence”, “political pressure”, “money bought off those making the decision”. This habit is so ingrained in the Lft that its become an autonomic process: it happens w/o thought through-out their group, like breathing or pumping blood.

The only way to fix things — & this applies to everything — is to make sure the Lft pays a heavy price for every inch of ground & every misstep. It must needs become the mission of every patriot to sell every lost pnt of contention dearly.

That is what makes this a tireless miserable war. The Lft doesn’t willingly give ground. They wait, applying holding actions, until they can remount their offensive. AND they’ve managed to:
(1) gain contrl of the educational apparratus to mold as many as possible into “sheeple”
(2) convince those sheeple that
(a) tolerence means *active promotion* of a view
(b) the idea of coordination (in laying our country low) by the Lft is tinhat
(c) a patriot is crazy by definition.

Its actually more complex than that, & there are more pnts that the Lft has been allowed to propogate as truth for too long. A shortage of time & (buffer) space here, & I’d be hijacking the thread, along w/the fact I’m typing this in frm my PDA, (an arduious[sp?] exercise, & there’s no spellchecker…), preclude details & listing their methods of operation.

One thing abt (b) above: I destintly remembr during the buildup to the crecendo that was 9/11. Any suggestion of an organized enemy was openly called tinhat.

– martin.musculus

You are spot on as I too saw the same thing over here in 04′ and see an even stronger bond know 4 years later.

I have more in common with the Iraqi Arab Muslim Police Chief of Haditha, Col Farouq, who wants to kill terrorists, than I have with some of my fellow U.S. citizens, national leaders in the Presbyterian Church (my religon), who want to coddle the Islamofascists.

Believe it or not, I think the Iraqis now realize that, too. Once we abondonded the disastrous “light footprint” strategy, and decided to fight, we gained a “blood brother” respect that WILL ENDURE.

MM fans know I’ve posted on this subject before. That I am an ardent believer in OIF, an Haditha Vet, and will proudly return in Spring 09 to finish off the puny remains of an AQIZ who got their ass kicked by the US and the ISF.

I remember, and wish you well. I wonder if you think that the Iraqi soldiers and police who train and fight with US Forces will remain lasting allies, like the Mountain People in the central highlands of Vietnam?