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Marine defends Haditha killings
Transcript of sergeant's
statement to U.S. military investigators
shows that he thought battalion reacted in appropriate manner
By Josh White
WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON
- A sergeant who examined the scene hours after Marines
killed two dozen Iraqis in Haditha last year said the shootings
appeared to be an appropriate response to a coordinated insurgent
attack, according to a sworn statement obtained by the Washington
Post.
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August 24, 2006:
Letter From Okinawa
A reader who asks not to be identified writes in response to an item
yesterday:
I got a huge kick out of the reminder of the John Murtha/Okinawa
remark.
I'm stationed on Okinawa (at Kadena Air Base Japan), and can
assure you the Okinawans would go absolutely insane if they knew
Murtha had proposed effectively using Okinawa as a staging ground for
U.S. forces redeploying from Iraq but ready to return as required. We
can't start an engine or fire a weapon without the Okinawans freaking
out about US activities on the island.
Its also curious he mentioned Okinawa as the imaginary redeployment
base. According to
Indo.com, Okinawa is 4,257 nautical miles from Baghdad, while
Frankfurt (near Ramstein Air Base) is only 3,469 nautical. If we had
to implement Murtha's nutty proposal somewhere, wouldn't somewhere
closer than Okinawa make sense? Baltimore, the main East Coast
deployment port, is 6176 nautical miles away, but once you're airborne
in a C-17, flyin's flyin'. What's seven more hours of flight time?
We're sure Murtha will figure this all out when he's President
Feingold's defense secretary.
The Conservative Army targets Murtha
Read their e-mail!
Dear
Conservative Army members:
As you all know, the 2006 elections are rapidly approaching. Many of
you have become disgruntled by the Republicans and the RINOs, and are
tired of the LIBERAL rhetoric and agenda.
It is really important that you all ponder this:
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi/House Majority Leader John Murtha
IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT BUSH AND VP CHENEY
President Nancy Pelosi/Speaker of the House John Murtha
Obviously, this is a scenario that even the LIBERALS don't want; but,
is it a possibility? Yes, indeed it is if the LIBERALS win back both
the House and the Senate.
The Conservative Army has decided not to sit around to wait for the
election results!
We have chosen to take action against one of the LIBERALS' most
powerful Congressmen, John "Jack" Murtha.
Congressman Murtha has become the anti-war leader and voice for the
LIBERALS. In doing this, he has tried and convicted our Marines on an
international platform without the investigations even being complete.
He has made statements that our Army is broken that our soldiers
serving in Iraq as well as our enemies are hearing. He is quoted in
Al-Jazeera Magazine on-line and has aligned himself with Code Pink and
Cindy Sheehan as they run Un-American ads in Iraqi newspapers and
accost our wounded soldiers and
their families outside Walter Reed Army Hospital. Currently,
Congressman Murtha is conducting a 41-state tour running around the
country lambasting the war, our President and our country.
YES!! THE JACKALS HAVE RETURNED, and they would turn Iraq into
Vietnam! We must not allow that to happen! This man needs to return to
Pennsylvania for good!
TCA has put together a myriad of intelligence regarding this man's
tenure as a United States Congressman from his comments and his voting
record to his feeble service as a Marine, mostly as a Reservist.
All of this information is located on the "Call to Action Forum." We
are asking you to get involved! We are asking that you copy and paste
this information and disseminate it far and wide. This is our chance
to affect change and to help Diana Irey win this election. We must
send this Congressman back to the rocker on his porch in PA where he
can cause no more harm.
[LINK
to Call to Action Forum]
NOW IS THE TIME FOR YOU TO STAND UP AND BE COUNTED!!
Thank you,
Bobby Barrieno,
Vice Chairman -
The Conservative Army
The truth about Haditha
Democrat Rep. John "Cut and Run" Murtha thinks he knows the truth
about Haditha — and he has been blabbing it to every last cable show
host that will host him. The loose-lipped former Marine has accused
troops of wantonly killing some two dozen civilians, including
children, "in cold blood" in the terrorist stronghold in Iraq last
November. There are two ongoing military investigations into the
incident itself and the actions of higher-ups in the Haditha
aftermath.
Let me repeat that: The investigations are ongoing. Not complete.
Official reports aren't expected for several weeks.
I do not know the truth about Haditha. Neither do Murtha and the media
outlets calling the alleged massacre a massacre before all the facts
are in. It would be helpful if they could handle these grave charges
without serving as al Jazeera satellite offices. GOP Sen. John Warner,
who like Murtha also served in the Marines, struck the right tone over
the weekend — refusing, unlike Murtha, to render a verdict against the
Marines before trial and avoiding Bush Derangement Syndrome, but also
taking the allegations very seriously.
I do know this. Children are dead. Other children have been orphaned.
There are pictures of bullet holes and bloodied homes. There are
evolving stories about what happened last Nov. 19 and serious
allegations of a possible cover-up.
I also know this: Lance Cpl. Miguel Terrazas, the Marine who was
killed by a roadside IED that day, followed a proud family tradition
of military service. He had received a commendation for bravery on his
first tour of duty in Iraq in 2004. One of his fellow Marines said
Terrazas's body was split in two by the bomb explosion that rocked his
Hummer while on patrol that morning.
And there's this: Haditha is crawling with terrorists. The Associated
Press points out that "in just three days last August, six Marine
snipers were killed in Haditha and 14 Marines died in nearby Parwana
in the deadliest roadside bombing of the war." Most wanted al Qaeda
leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is reported to have lived in Haditha. The
Washington Post quoted a military lawyer noting that Nov. 19 was the
Marine 3rd Battalion's "hottest day" in Iraq.
"In addition to drone surveillance that day," the paper reported,
"AV-8 Harriers were dropping bombs, helicopters were evacuating
wounded, and a large firefight occurred about one-third of a mile from
the site of the civilian shootings, said several people familiar with
the investigation." Audio of radio traffic that day reportedly
contradicts Rep. Murtha's claim that the Marines did not come under
small-arms fire after the roadside explosion, according to one of the
Post's military sources.
We know this, too: Naval Criminal Investigative Service officials have
not turned their backs. Time magazine, which initially broke the story
of survivors' accounts that prompted the military probe, reports that
Haditha residents — who have yet to be visited by any of Iraq's own
officials — "were gratified by [the investigation's] thoroughness" and
"were especially impressed by the NCIS investigators" conducting three
separate enquiries.
Finally, there is this incontrovertible fact: There are countless
numbers of anti-war zealots on the American Left rooting for failure.
They believe the worst about the troops. They've blindly embraced
frauds who've lied about their military service and lied about wartime
atrocities. They've allied themselves with socialist kooks and coddled
murderous dictators. They are looking for any excuse to pull out,
abandon military operations and reconstruction, and impeach the
president.
They insist on giving suspected foreign terrorists more benefit of the
doubt than our own men and women in uniform. And that, I know, I am
not willing to do.
I will wait. I will pray. And I will remind you that while the murder
of civilians is and remains an anomaly in American military history,
it is the jihadists' way of life.
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