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Haditha Again: Justice? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Justice!
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The soldier always knows that everything he does on such an occasion will be scrutinized by two classes of critics—by the Government which employs him and by the enemies of that Government. As far as the Government is concerned, he is a little Admiral Jellicoe and this his tiny Battle of Jutland. He has to make a vital decision on incomplete information in a matter of seconds, and afterwards the experts can sit down at leisure, with all the facts before them, and argue about what he might, could, or should have done. Lucky the soldier if, as in Jellicoe’s case, the tactical experts decide after twenty years of profound consideration that what he did in three minutes was right. As for enemies of the Government, it does not much matter what he has done. They will twist, misinterpret, falsify, or invent any fact as evidence that he is an inhuman monster wallowing in innocent blood.
Slim’s reflection applies as well to an event that garnered much attention when it first came to light in 2006. In November 2005, the Marine Corps reported that a number of civilians had been killed in Haditha by an improvised explosive device (IED) that also killed Marine Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas, and that eight insurgents were killed in the ensuing firefight.
Again, I ask: John Murtha, when are you going to apologize to the Corps and to your countrymen and women for your own heinous accusations?
Haditha Again: Justice? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Justice! by Mackubin T. Owens (http://ashbrook.org/publicat/oped/owens/hadithaagain.html - broken link)
WHen you going to stop covering up the crimes of your servicemen?
As I wrote to Upton this morning, I refuse to argue with idiots. You, sir, are second in line. You, of all people, should support the service men and women who are fighting for you. I will not quit, I will not waver, as you, obviously have.
I've seen people doing the very things that later created scandal. Do you think Tailhook happened the very year it was revealed? NO, it was ALREADY old news.
I've seen people doing the very things that later created scandal. Do you think Tailhook happened the very year it was revealed? NO, it was ALREADY old news.
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Haditha Again: Justice?
