Marines Deserve Justice

The American Thinker: Haditha: Is McGirk the New Mary Mapes?
June 9th, 2006

Evidence accumulates of a hoax in Haditha. The weblog Sweetness & Light has done an estimable service gathering together the articles which cast substantial doubt on the charge of a massacre of civilians at Haditha . Because the blog is too busy gathering and fisking the news, I offered and the publisher accepted my offer to put what he has uncovered in a narrative form.

Having done so, I can tell you that the story has a whiff of yet another mediagenic scandal like the TANG memos or the Plame “outing.” While the Marines quite correctly will not comment on the case pending the outcome of their investigation, I am not bound by those rules, and I will sum up the story for you...

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From my perspective, having been on the same side of a shooting investigation, under no circumstances should the Marines be denied their constitutional rights. How this flushes out, from our perch here in Ohio is anyone’s guess, but these young men deserve to be treated justly and as Americans. I will point out that a week before the alleged incident CNN was with the same unit and praised the Marines for their unparalleled fire discipline.

I think too many conservatives either because they oppose the war or have been conditioned to back down when the media makes a full frontal assault on an issue are recoiling and not combating the MSM (I personally think it’s the latter). Who is going to stand by these men, the great humanitarians of Amnesty International, MoveOn.Org, or the Democrat Party? If those Americans that believe in the rule of law desert these men, what hope is there for our country?

These men deserve the better.

Brian Duffy
USA, Retired