Haditha, Murtha, MSM
I’m leaving most of what needs to be said on this topic unsaid.
My disgust for the preening, posturing, pious right side of the blogosphere cannot be easily expressed.
So let me just say the following. No links. No trackbacks. Just me.
1) We don’t know what happened in Haditha. Not me, not you, not Michelle Malkin. We don’t yet know.
2) When we do, we should, and no doubt will, react as necessary.
3) Nobody needs to state that those guilty of crimes should be punished. Not me, not you, not Michelle Malkin. It’s self-righteous posturing.
4) Haditha isn’t Charleston, South Carolina. It’s an ‘insurgent citadel’. Google the quote and see who reports it. You’ll get the shock of a farking lifetime.
5) We’re fighting a war. A nasty brutal war.
6) People die in wars. Innocents together with combatants.
7) When enemy combatants hide among the innocent, more innocents will necessarily die. We still need to kill the enemy to win the war. Winning the war is more important than protecting innocents. Sorry about that.
That’s all I can say without descending into a torrent of foul-mouthed abuse directed against putative allies. I won’t do that.
Tags: Haditha, US Marine Corps, Rightist Preening, Blogger Sanctimony
tommy says:
there is a relatively small group of people that know what happened, none of them are talking publicly (or I haven’t seen it if they are). As the saying goes you don’t know what you don’t know.
The problem we have now is that by the times facts come out on any case, it’s old and stale by news standards and no longer covered. So the side that does the most screaming without knowing anything wins. As a result, facts are useless trivial things in the modern news cycle.
James R Burnett says:
The Haditha Reports
There are reports that 24 civilians in Haditha Iraq where slaughtered in an in provoked attack last November. There is an ongoing internal military investigation going on, which have not found nor provided any additional information.
Diva says:
Martin,
Excellent post. It’s good to hear a sane voice among all the other senseless chatter about this case. Murtha, Michelle and Co. are disgusting and morally reprehensible as they tar and feather these Marines. At this time it is being investigated and that is all we really know - but to hear the MSM, Murtha and others you would think the case has been tried and the verdict relayed as a strong Guilty.
Tommy - you are spot on with your analysis like Lance Armstrong who was slimed by the French & MSM regarding doping up and now cleared of the charges - the Marines too are being slimed and if they are innocent none of the MSM, Murtha or even Michelle (who I’ve recently noticed only cares about getting in front of any possible breaking story - instead of being right)will give the story a five second glance. For all intents in purposes innocent until proven guilty no longer exist in the court of “public opinion” and sadly it appears that that’s the only court to which the public pays any attention.
MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy » Blog Archive » My turn in Haditha says:
[...] And of course, Martin and Vinnie’s posts, immediately preceding this one. Like Martin, I’m not ready to say much more yet without spitting out a bunch of obscenities. Short version: if (ignorant) people are going to stupidly try and prosecute this (and prematurely sentence them!) in the media and on the internets, I intend on speaking for the defense. But I’ll do it when I’m not quite so disgusted and pissed off at the Blogosphere Blowhards™. When I see blog diarrhea like the Marines should be “hanged” or put in front of “a firing squad,” especially from my own side, my blood boils. As for me, I still believe in the idea of “innocent until proven guilty.” I also think those who defend America definitely deserve to enjoy those rights. To hell with this “fair and balanced” mother-hen bloviating from the armchair judges and juries on the internets, and the Time magazine asshats can burn in hell for feeding the enemy propaganda like Newsweek did. I might not be a Marine, but I’ll still say this: SEMPER FI. [...]