There have been a lot of different reports coming out of Iraq these days about the "massacre" in Haditha. One thing I hear from some is "these Marines killed innocents this is a war crime". Or "these Marines only acted in this way due to stress and length of their tour in Iraq".
Source: truthdig.com
Molly Ivins: Is it possible our continued presence in Iraq will make things better? Sure. Hope away. Because all the evidence points in the opposite direction.
Source: Truthout Dahr Jamail
It has always been just a matter of time before the US military would finally get around to destroying Ramadi, the capital city of al-Anbar province.
Source: nytimes.com
The lawyer for a Marine being investigated in the deaths of two dozen civilians in Haditha, Iraq, described the event as ''tragic,'' but denied innocent people were killed intentionally and said troops followed military rules of engagement.
Source: washingtonpost.com
A sergeant who led a squad of Marines during the incident in Haditha, Iraq, that left as many as 24 civilians dead said his unit did not intentionally target any civilians, followed military rules of engagement and never tried to cover up the shootings, his attorney said.
Source: Dahr Jamail's Hard News Publications
Propaganda and Haditha By Dahr Jamail and Jeff Pflueger Friday 09 June 2006
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. - Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during World War II
Source: washingtonpost.com
What are the rules of engagement in Iraq? Were they followed? Did the Marines lie or did Israeli civilians lie? Is the truth somewhere inbetween? Were the marines being shot at? Did the marines use grenades? Did a doctor lie about no shrapnel wounds? Were the Haditha civil …
Source: sweetness-light.com
In the original version of this story, TIME reported that "a day after the incident, a Haditha journalism student videotaped the scene at the local morgue and at the homes where the killings had occurred.
Source: alternet.org
"There is a leadership deficit in the armed forces of the United States today, and it begins with the commander in chief, President George W Bush, and his secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld.
Source: glenngreenwald.blogspot.com
Anonymous Liberal writes about what happens when partisans run out of approved talking points and are forced to improvise.
When the British Army arrived in Northern Ireland it was welcomed by many Catholics, who believed it would act as a neutral peacekeeping force which could protect them from brutal Protestand mobs such as the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the Special Ulster Constabulary.
Source: edition.cnn.com
Pentagon sources say some of the most incriminating evidence against Marines under investigation in the deaths of civilians at Haditha is a set of photographs taken by another group of Marines who came along afterward and helped clean up the scene.
Source: alertnet.org
LOS ANGELES, June 7 (Reuters) - U.S. Marines accused of killing 24 unarmed Iraqis in Haditha will cite chaotic battle conditions as their defense if charged with murder, said a source close to one of the soldiers under investigation.
On this vote at this time Bush would be impeached but not convicted. 3. Should Bush be impeached? Yes---124----------No---65------
As of 5 pm CDT 7 June
There could be a few more votes but this is the current vote.
Source: ipsnews.net
"There are many, many, many cases like Haditha that are still undercover and need to be highlighted in Iraq," Dr Salam Ishmael, projects manager with the organisation Doctors for Iraq, and former chief of the junior doctors in Baghdad's Medical City Hospital told IPS.
Source: realclearpolitics.com
From the article: Let me suggest what went wrong and continues to go wrong in both Iraq and Afghanistan. It is the rest of the world shirking its duty and leaving the fighting, dying and casualties to be borne overwhelmingly by the U.S.
Source: opinionjournal.com
Should the critics of President Bush use Haditha to undermine U.S. efforts in Iraq? From the article: Ultimately, the Haditha incident must remind American policy makers--and the American people--of the challenges of modern warfare. Although the individual actions of U.S.
Source: Reuters.com
Apparently there are some Republicans who want to get to the bottom of the issue, too.
Source: monbiot.com
you just zap any farmer that is close to you … when we first got down there, you could basically kill whoever you wanted, it was that easy.
- George Monbiot quotes an Iraq veteran.
Source: slate.com
From the article: all the glib talk about My Lai is so much propaganda and hot air. In Vietnam, the rules of engagement were such as to make an atrocity—the slaughter of the My Lai villagers took almost a day rather than a white-hot few minutes—overwhelmingly probable.
Source: worldnetdaily.com
From the article: The truth is the public does not believe the protestations of the press about the nobility of its motives. To many in Red-State America, the media do not just expose wrongdoing.
Source: consortiumnews.com
The irony being the US was so instrumental in setting the perimeters of what constitutes a war crime and especially the culpability of leaders for the acts, legal or otherwise, of soldiers under their command.
"This Haditha story, this Haditha incident, whatever, this is it folks, this is the final big push on behalf of the Democratic Party, the American left, and the Drive-By Media to destroy our effort to win the war in Iraq.
Source: newsblogs.chicagotribune.com
From the article: Given the attention that the allegations of a massacre at Haditha have been receiving, it's worth taking a moment to consider the extraordinary stresses that American service members are under as they fight the unconventional war against insurgents in Iraq.
Source: kfty.com
HANFORD, Calif. (AP) - A Marine who was involved in the alleged massacre by U-S forces in the Iraqi town of Haditha claims post-traumatic stress drove him to commit felonies while on leave.
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