Haditha Marine’s Parents want John Murtha Censured
Remember when it was reported in 2005 that a United States marine shot three Iraqi’s execution style? Remember how John Murtha immediately presumed this man was guilty? He presumed the marine was guilty so he could further his anti-war, ant-Bush rhetoric. He tried to use this case as proof that America should not fight terrorism. He WANTED this marine to be guilty so badly, that he presumed him guilty. All to show that American marines, and soldiers are bad, evil people, and so is America.
John Murtha had no inside knowledge of what had happened in Haditha, and he had no regard for our sevicemen serving in Iraq. He would have rather taken the word of our enemy than our soldiers. And he did. This man is a disgrace to himself, and his country.
This week:
Lt. Col. Paul Ware, released an 18-page report recommending that all charges against Sharratt’s son, Lance Cpl. Justin Sharratt, be dismissed because his actions “were in accord with the rules of engagement and use of force.”
Where is John Murtha’s apology? I haven’t heard it yet, have you. Isn’t it typical, when a Democrat feels they can use something against the president, even without knowing the facts, they use it. Now that this incident didn’t happen the way the enemy claimed, Murtha is silent in apologizing. He still WANTS to believe the enemy over his own country.
Now the parents of the marine are speaking out, and as you can imagine they are not happy.
The parents of a U.S. Marine accused of killing three Iraqis execution-style in Haditha in late 2005 said Thursday they would ask Congress to censure Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) for saying that the Marines “overreacted” during the incident and killed civilians “in cold blood.”
“It’s too late for an apology,” Darryl Sharratt of Canonsburg, Pa., told Cybercast News Service
And he is right, what good does an apology do now? John Murtha SHOULD be censured, hell, he should resign in shame. Of course, he won’t. Nothing will come from this, he has a D after his name. When I think of what this man said about one of our marines it makes my blood boil.
Sharratt said that he, his wife Theresa and other supporters of their 22-year-old son were planning to visit Martha’s office, and “we’re going to ask for more than an apology.”
“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.”
“This is what we’ve been fighting for in Iraq,” Sharratt added. “This is what we’ve been fighting for — what soldiers and Marines have been dying for — for the past 200 years.”
I hope something comes of this, but I think we all know how this is going to end. It won’t be covered on the news, and the Democrats will sweep it under the rug the same way they have with all the Democrat scandals. It’s too easy for them to do so when it doesn’t get the media coverage it should, and when the Republicans won’t stand up and make themselves heard the way Democrats would if the situation were reversed.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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