Haditha
- Posted by Vinnie on May 31st, 2006 filed in Iraq, Support the Troops, The War, Vinnie
The investigations are still ongoing. That’s not an excuse to ignore or dismiss the extensive reporting on the story.
She’s right, it’s not an excuse. It’s a reason to ignore or dismiss the extensive reporting on the story.
Yes, it’s mostly one-sided at this point.
Not according to my blogroll. And I have a mighty big blogroll.
But if, if, even a fraction of it is true, it deserves the most vehement condemnation and most severe punishment.
A fraction? What’s a fraction of the truth? A half truth? Which is a lie, according to most definitions.
Toddlers are dead.
This toddler? Or is it this one? What about this toddler? Then we have this toddler who died too.
As much as the Left’s glee over this story distresses me, it doesn’t compare to my dismay at the Right’s attempts to cover it’s ass before the fact.
By rushing to get ahead of the curve, relying on leaks from anonymous sources and various press accounts, the people saying “if this is true, and it seems it is, they should hang” are doing as much damage to the war effort as the Left.
But they’ll celebrate, as I do, the Greatest Generation. The one that interned Japanese, nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki (toddlers are dead, people), firebombed Dresden and Tokyo, invented the flamethrower, Napalm, White Phosphorous, and various and sundry other horrific ways to kill people.
We correctly laud these things as having been necessary in order to protect our United States, but, the fact is, each of these killled many civilians. And we sanctioned it, and have accepted it for decades.
Such is war.
Yes, let’s those of us who weren’t there, and never will be, flagellate ourselves over this, without any charges, or Court Martials even being brought. Let’s make sure we don’t give the Left any excuse to criticize us for not speaking out against it.
Because that’s what the Right is doing. Making sure they get in a fraction of condemnation before the Left has a chance to jump on them for not doing so. Because, see, we always have to take the high road. Show them how better we are than they are.
Screw ‘em. I don’t have to pillory the Marines preemptively to prove I’m better than the moonbats. They’ve pilloried themselves on this subject quite well already.
So until someone ponies up the fact that Iraqi men, women, and children were lined up against a wall and executed, I’ll reserve my judgment on the issue.
Until the truth comes out, shut the hell up about Haditha. Somewhere, Khomeini is smiling.
Trelaina says:
Unfortunately, this is the exact reason I stopped reading Michelle’s site regularly. During several recent news events, she has tried, to my view, desperately to leap to the front of whatever she feels the correct line will eventually be. Sometimes it even appears she’s trying to set things up so she can say she was the “first major blogger” to do something. It’s just not worth the rise in my blood pressure.
annika says:
Wow. That needed to be said.
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. [...]
Ogre's Politics & Views says:
Haditha
The Ogre weighs in on the “situation” in Haditha.
CatHouse Chat says:
I believe in our Marines!
The blogosphere is ablaze with commentary concerning Haditha and the Marines who just might be tried for murder. Now, I don’t know exactly what happened: I wasn’t there. However, that idiot Murtha - who also wasn’t there - seems quite