Comments on: Haditha Marine’s Parents want John Murtha Censured

By: arclightzero

arclightzero — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:37:02 +0000

As always, I tire of the people out there who speak as if they have any authority to speak on such matters (like Mark). He has no idea what happened in Iraq, and given his attitude I would assume he never served in the military either. Things happen in wars. What we are told over here is what he media decides to tell us and what the politicians tell us which we can only hope is the truth. To try to condemn these Marines via the information we have been told is asinine at best. Believe me, there is always more to the story, and I have known enough Marines and served alongside the best of them, to know that what happened wasn’t a senseless murder.

Mark says “do your research” but I would challenge him on his own research. Was he there? Does he have inside information as to what happened that day? As I said, simply going by what is told to us here stateside is like reading the Weekly World News and treating it as fact.

By: mpinkeyes

mpinkeyes — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:40:08 +0000

Bush lied is another lie perpetratated by the Democrats. The fact is everyone thought he had WMD. All the ohter countries thought he had WMD. The Democrats thought he had WMD and not because Bush told them but because they saw the same intellegence Bush saw.

In 1998 President Clinton said this:

“The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow.”

Was President Clinton lying? That would be a first for him, right? Unfortunetaly he failed to back up those words. Maybe if he did Sept. 11th would have been avoided.

And yes I am upset about the handling of the war. We should have gone in there with our full force, we could have ended this war rather quickly. Unfortunately we have tried to fight a politically correct war. We have tried to limit civilian casualties, and have refused to shoot at the enemy when they are hiding in Mosques and schools. That is no way to win the war. We should have bombed them into submission. Bush would have been hammered for that by the left if he went that route, so he chose this route, and is now paying the price for it.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:36:04 +0000

Sharrat: “We need this man censured by our Congress,” he said, because “he denied my son — and the other Marines involved — their constitutional rights to a fair trial and a presumption of innocence.”

Tell that to the innocent Iraqi civilians, including seven women and three children, that were denied the presumption of innocence and murdered. You seem to keep forgetting, conveniently enough for your rant, that there were witnesses. There was no firefight, no exchange oif gunfire and no explosion. The Marines should pay the price.

About the rest of your tirade, I’ll just quote what Murtha said about Tom DeLay:

“When I was in Vietnam, you were killing bugs.”

Do your research.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:31:39 +0000

While do agree that it was wrong of Murtha to make those comments and that he owes an apology, I want to ask; where is Bush’s apology for lying to the American people? You seem so quick to generalize fallibility as trait inherent to Democrats. Why aren’t you outraged at the mess the Bush administration has made of this country and others? How many parents, Iraqi and American alike, will receive an apology for the lies that destroyed their families? Personally, I think we need a third party and most of the politicians should get the boot. They do not have our best interest at heart.