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2007-08-24 Iraq

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Posted by lotp 2007-08-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 I believe that shoot and no shoot in war belongs to the authority of higher being. If there is no way to exhume a body and no way to CSI this,there is no case. I do think something very wrong was done.

Nevertheless, this is war.

Posted by newc">newc 2007-08-24 01:22|| 2007-08-24 01:22|| Front Page Top

#2 I do think something very wrong was done.

Yes, and you know what it was? It was "insurgents" (otherwise known as 'bloodthirsty moon-god death cultist pieces of shit') firing from residential areas and rooftops of homes, knowing there were women and children inside and that the American forces would retaliate.

Given the same situation, in the same circumstances, I doubt anyone here would have reacted any differently. Clear the men. Leave them alone.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2007-08-24 01:27|| 2007-08-24 01:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Add this to Murtha's reasons to resign.

Posted by Phinater Thraviger 2007-08-24 06:29|| 2007-08-24 06:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Ala Mark Levin, how about a Rantburg Surge? Contact John Murtha 202-225-2065. Ask John Murtha when the Congressman intends to either apologize or resign. Be respectful. Go!

Posted by doc 2007-08-24 06:40|| 2007-08-24 06:40|| Front Page Top

#5 This whole situation was a joke from the get-go. Just like Abu Ghraib. Just like Lt Pantano. We can police our own. Pay the locals their blood money and move on. Yes, I'm cynical, & no, I don't care. I'm sick of media stoking a burn pit until it turns into a full fledged forest fire. Pathetic western elitist muslim-apologists performing corporal mortification on themselves for having to come to grips w/the realities of war...while our enemies laugh at us. I contemplate "all enemies foreign and domestic" more & more each day........

Posted by Broadhead6 2007-08-24 08:23|| 2007-08-24 08:23|| Front Page Top

#6 terrorists hiding behind women and children with these so called civilians protecting and giving them a place to hide.
I hate that this gives our guys a momment of hesitation that they may be slammed with a war crime, this really sucks.
There was a chapter in Lone Survivor about this very thing, which ended up getting them killed.

Posted by Jan from work 2007-08-24 09:16|| 2007-08-24 09:16|| Front Page Top

#7 I do hope this has repercussions for those who decided to proceed with this case against all common sense. It was so obviously a propaganda attempt by the enemy to win in the court what had been lost on the battlefield.

Dear Broadhead6, the political battlefield here at home is being reshaped even as we type... and every month there are fewer "journalists" receiving paychecks as the profitability of the MSM continues ever deeper into the red resulting from the work of their poison-tipped pens. They have been creating their own doom, as have the ever more despised "anti-war" members of both houses of Congress. The latest Rasmussen poll puts Congress' approval rating at the lowest since the that question was first asked in the early 1970s.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-08-24 09:31|| 2007-08-24 09:31|| Front Page Top

#8
Dear Broadhead6, the political battlefield here at home is being reshaped even as we type... and every month there are fewer "journalists" receiving paychecks as the profitability of the MSM continues ever deeper

No problem. The MSM will be funded either by billionaires with axes to grind and selfguilt complexes or by our friends teh Saudis.

Solution is when people no longer trust teh medias even for learning the day's date.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-08-24 11:49|| 2007-08-24 11:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Charging someone with murder in Iraq is like giving out speeding tickets at the Indianapolis 500.

Posted by Claiger Jomomble6619 2007-08-24 12:13|| 2007-08-24 12:13|| Front Page Top

#10 I can only hope that the voters will send Murtha home in defeat.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-08-24 12:44|| 2007-08-24 12:44|| Front Page Top

#11 I called Murtha's office today. I asked if he was going to issue an apology to the troops he slandered. The phone girl said he doesn't have a statement as the case is ongoing. I pointed out that didn't stop him from the slander a couple of months ago. She said she'd pass it on.

Posted by jds 2007-08-24 15:35|| 2007-08-24 15:35|| Front Page Top

#12 Nifong is lonely?

Posted by gromgoru 2007-08-24 15:49|| 2007-08-24 15:49|| Front Page Top

#13 Many Senators and Representative accept e-mails from anybody, but there are a select few that only accept e-mail from their constituents. The short list is Pelosi, Murtha, and (Majority Whip?)Steny Hoyer.

So I have (in the past) written all of them letters complaining about how they speak for all the people, but only listen to a tiny fraction. I never get a response, of course, because it's six weeks later by the time the mail has been de-anthraxed, etc.

It does, however, make me feel ever-so-slightly better.

Posted by Bobby 2007-08-24 16:20|| 2007-08-24 16:20|| Front Page Top

#14 You can't even rely on the MSM news accounts to decently wipe your arse.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-08-24 17:52|| 2007-08-24 17:52|| Front Page Top

#15 #11: I called Murtha's office today. I asked if he was going to issue an apology to the troops he slandered. The phone girl said he doesn't have a statement as the case is ongoing. I pointed out that didn't stop him from the slander a couple of months ago. She said she'd pass it on.

Sorry, you wasted a phone call, her job is to NOT "pass it on" to make the complaints vanish, if she did "Pass it on" she'd be fired.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-08-24 17:57|| 2007-08-24 17:57|| Front Page Top

#16 If Pelosi and her gang had an OUNCE of decency they would censure that dingbat Murtha for wrongly accusing our Marines. But I know better.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2007-08-24 21:39|| 2007-08-24 21:39|| Front Page Top

#17 So you live in a state not affected by illegal aliens, or so you think. Did you know that they count illegal aliens in the census? Well they do and these numbers are put towards how the population is apportioned for seats in Congress.

more at link:

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so if the illegals are in their jurisdiction they could call 'their' congress critters, but we can't?!
I was shocked to learn that illegals are counted in deciding how many seats for that state. It should be citizens.

Posted by Jan 2007-08-24 22:42|| 2007-08-24 22:42|| Front Page Top

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