“Haditha Massacre” Update

Last year we were told about how our US Marines massacred women and children in the town of Haditha. An article by Ellen Knickmeyer appeared in the Washington Post on May 27, 2006 went into great detail about how innocent citizens were slaughtered according to witnesses.

“"Marines overreacted . . . and killed innocent civilians in cold blood," said one of those briefed, Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), a former Marine who maintains close ties with senior Marine officers despite his opposition to the war.”

I'm beginning to think that John Murtha maintains close ties to our enemies and that he’s enlisted his support for them here in our country. “By rights he should be taken out and hung…for the cold blooded murder…”; sorry, that’s from My Fair Lady and somehow it worked its way into my thoughts.

That was then and this is now; turns out that many of the “facts” may have been twisted a wee bit by our loyal media, those ever supportive of our military efforts, bought the whole “fabrication of facts” hook, line and sinker. Gosh and Oh My; you mean to say that our news media would intentionally print a story intended to turn the public’s opinion against our own troops?

I was listening to the Rush Limbaugh show this afternoon, that mind altering show which poses a danger to the more progressive segment of our society. Roger Hedgecock, filling in for a vacationing Rush, announced “breaking news” from the trial of those murdering Marines. It seems that our intelligence network had recorded conversations prior to the event which alerted them to certain facts, which had been classified up until this time, alerted them that a road side bomb would be used to stop the convoy and create a perfect ambush. A white car filled with terrorists inside would drive up; which it did, and the Marines were ready for them. The Marines had also been alerted that insurgents (terrorists hiding among the citizens) would be part of the ambush and shoot at the convoy from adjoining houses.

Some of those killed and listed as innocent students were in fact part of the plot to ambush and slaughter our soldiers once their convoy was halted by a roadside bomb; they were riding in a white car that was supposed to “blend in” and then take out our soldiers. Fortunately our Marines had been briefed about this plot by virtue of some good intelligence work and these soldiers knew about the white car the terrorist would be driving. The “witness” with the video camera may have links to the terrorists and was positioned there as part of the plot; a chance to record the deaths of Marines who would be stopped because of the road side bomb.

I have no data other than what I heard on the radio; here’s my point. Where is the printed version of this information? I checked Google with key words, “Haditha”, “Haditha Massacre”, “Haditha Marines” and all I came up with were the old drive by media stories indicating that our Marines are brutal murderers who killed civilians inside their homes. Nothing in print to indicate that upon entering those houses our Marines were shot at while the terrorists escaped out the back door and used innocent civilians as shields, nothing about the fact that the fellow holding the video camera, the guy listed as a “student” was in his 40’s and had ties to the terrorists. Nothing at all; why is that?

I was hoping to see John Murtha’s statement, something along the lines of, “Gee, I’m sorry for calling these brave Marines murderers; I spoke out of turn. I should have waited for Reliable witnesses. I should have waited for a court to make a decision as to their guilt or innocence before going public with my politically charged statements.” I guess it will be a while before I read or hear that kind of honesty from John Murtha.

I just checked again on the CNN web site, nothing that I could find. There was a lead article about 12 US Troops Killed over Past 48 Hours, Hundreds join search for missing woman, Tax dodgers taunt police from hill tops and so on and so on; nothing about this turn from fiction to fact, from fabrication to reality. Maybe that story is on page 23 next to other updates; the possibility that changing the kitty litter box prior to having company over for dinner will improve the ambience.