Not so much. One of the Marines charged with murdering civilians in Haditha, Iraq, in 2005 knew that only women and children were huddled in a back bedroom in a house there, but he opened the door and shot them anyway, a squadmate testified Tuesday. “I told him, there’s women and kids in that room,” …
Remember, They Hate us for Our Freedom
A little more than three days time served for each victim: A Marine sergeant who told his troops to “shoot first, ask questions later” in a raid that killed unarmed Iraqi women, children and elderly pleaded guilty Monday in a deal that will carry no more than three months confinement and end the largest and …
Dead Civilians are the Cost of Doing Business
Sadly, the only people who will be punished for this are the ones who forgot to destroy the documents: One by one, the Marines sat down, swore to tell the truth and began to give secret interviews discussing one of the most horrific episodes of America’s time in Iraq: the 2005 massacre by Marines of …
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Who Would Al Qaeda Want To Win The White House?
Let’s think about that for a minute. The last time I checked those guys who attacked us are sitting snug in their Pakistan safe haven while America spends its blood, treasure and credibility stirring chaos in a country that bin Laden meant to chaosify himself if we hadn’t done it for him. Bin Laden attacked …
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I Know When I Am Beat
I was going to write a snide and condescending post (why stop now?) about the continuing absurd reactions to the latest Beauchamp revelations, but then I read this at the NRO: At this point, if TNR’s defenders engage this story at all — and providing they don’t simply accuse military investigators of coercing Beauchamp into …
GI Not Guilty
While all the Haditha accusations are flying, we have a jury verdict for at least one case of alleged abuse in Afghanistan: In a last, sharp rebuke to Army prosecutors who had charged more than a dozen soldiers with abusing prisoners at a secret military jail in Afghanistan, a military jury on Thursday acquitted a …
Deceit and Disgust
More information continues to slowly dribble out in the Haditha mess: The U.S. military investigation of how Marine commanders handled the reporting of events last November in the Iraqi town of Haditha, where troops allegedly killed 24 Iraqi civilians, will conclude that some officers gave false information to their superiors, who then failed to adequately …