Ceph, Your probably correct, just like the clown Jefferson and his legally challenged family, with sticky fingers from New Orleans.

Ala Clint Eastwood, John Murtha SHOULD SHUT HIS FACE!

Shit.

If even the USMC, (of ALL organizations), cannot hold it's "Moral Code & Ethos" together....then there is virtually no hope for "The Center" to hold for the rest of the country.

I found a news story from ABC News in Australia that was proof the Haditha story was nothing but a hoax. That story is still up to this day and can be read at the link below.

US details Haditha shoot-out

From my June 2006 post on AJ Strata's blog

Haditha Uncovered
Published by AJStrata at 7:47 am under All General Discussions, Iraq

I must say I have always admired reader SBD’s talent and diligence in finding news articles that have direct bearing on stories, and finding them first! So it seems with the Haditha charade. SBD posted this comment on June 8th (from this post):

A cameraman working for Reuters in Haditha says bodies had been left lying in the street for hours after the attack.

Reuters camerman, Reuters Story, and no mention of Massacre. Maybe reuters has blind cameramen?? Do they really expect us to believe that Reuters withheld a story like this for 8 months when they had a cameraman right there during the supposed massacre?

The media really has no shame.

US details Haditha shoot-out

A roadside bomb that killed a US Marine in the restive town of Haditha on Saturday also killed 15 Iraqi civilians and led to intense clashes with insurgents.

The powerful bomb detonated as a US military convoy was passing through the town, which is 220 kilometres north-west of Baghdad.

The US military says immediately after the blast, gunmen opened fire on the convoy.

US and Iraqi soldiers returned fire, killing eight insurgents and wounding another in a firefight.

A cameraman working for Reuters in Haditha says bodies had been left lying in the street for hours after the attack.

He says the town has been virtually shut down for the past two days as US and Iraqi forces try to impose order.

US troops have been trying for months to quell the insurgency in Haditha and other Sunni Arab towns on the Euphrates.

It was suspected several months ago that Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was hiding out in the area.

The casualties from Saturday’s blast raised the death toll from attacks across Iraq over the past three days to at least 166.

Sunni-led insurgents are stepping up their battle against US and Iraqi forces ahead of parliamentary elections in December.

- Reuters

Apparently he also posted the at Free Republic. The critical point is that on the scene reporters for the anti-war, anti-Bush Reuters did not make mention of a massacre or incursion into homes, just a street fight. My hat is off to SBD for helping to expose a possible slanderous lie against our military and troops as they simply acted to protect themselves during an attack.

SBD

Yes, sue indeed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=67434

WND Exclusive
Haditha Marine prepares to sue Murtha over smear
Congressman had accused soldiers of killing 'in cold blood.

I've been contribiting for the LtCOL's defense at www.thomasmore.org.

And all y'all can too.

Great find Sal! Thanks for posting it.

Sal, a KARMA DING to you !!!!! GREAT POST and excellent research !

Any fair minded person would conclude that the U.S. military and the U.S. government can no longer can be trusted to treat service members with integrity, which in turn should call the duty of the good citizens to lay down their lives for the nutless cowards we have in the national crib into question. Sorry, but that's where it sits; my question to the Dems and these progressives: Got Kevlar? The prices on 7.62X39 steelcase are still pretty good, by the way.

I'm with ya bro!

.45/.357/9mm or 30/30...take your pick..

FYI, All,
I have friend on the JAG staff for that case who just returned to the States for her retirement from Army service. I and my family went to meet her, and her husband, also a veteran, at her reception and discovered she was involved with the prosecution of those cases. I asked here point blank whether she thought the accused were guilty and she said she did. She added that she thought the coverup was worse even then the actions of the soldiers. I then asked here why the judge decided against the prosecution and she shrugged her shoulders and said something like they, the prosecution, did not quite satisfy the burden of proof. Just thought you might like to hear the opinion of someone intimately involved with the case.