Comments on: 8 Marines Charged In Haditha Killings

Squad Leader Is Among 4 Charged With Murder; 4 Others Accused Of Failures In Probing Deaths

[baldfrog-2009]

they must have forgot 14 Marines died in one vehicle right out side of Haditha,the same week 6 snipers were killed at the same time last year.i don't know for sure but i believe the 14 in the personnel carrier they were in, was on a road outside Haditha that was blown up so bad it turned the vehicle over on its top.the folks on the road outside the city watched as that happened from the windows of there houses. so f... em.discharge our guys for *** up in the fog of war,of course none of use were there as our friend was killed and our commanders encouraged to them to go get the bad guys.if W and the generals don't know how to get the bad guys how the hell do you expect some privates,corporals and,nco's.please let them ( W,DC,Gates and the generals explain exactly how they are going to weed them out of the general population then they can point out the bad guys and this won't happen again.and we'll save a lot of lives and we can come home.until then lets not ruin the lives of 8 Marines who got caught up in the insanity of war.

These guys are alleged to have murdered civilians - including men, women and children as young as 2. If they are found guilty, they should be strung up. We would expect that if insurgents or civilians were caught and found guilty of similar crimes, that they would be punished appropriately.

Using the excuse that this should be excused because "they were soldiers" is pathetic and disgusting and a disgrace to those soldiers who do the right thing on a daily basis.

If you support our soldiers - then you should support putting these alleged criminals on trial.

[drinuk]

The only people who should be in court over Iraq are Muppets Bush and Blair.

[alphaa10-2009]

Free_Citizen said, "alphaa10, no one is slighting the soldiers..."
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You may have misread my post-- I have been hopeful for some time the American people will see justice done with Haditha, including procedural justice for the eight Marines charged. That means confronting the whole truth, while safeguarding the rights of the accused.

My post also has many clues which reveal I have no sympathy with the killers of My Lai, and expect justice will be served with the Haditha case.

[alphaa10-2009]

Haditha-- 2
Do you remember the similar Iraq atrocity earlier this year of Mahmoudiya? On December 13, 2006, the US military said that, at worst, it might imprison the GI who is accused of raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, killing her, burning her body and then killing all her family. Those charged with similar crimes in the US get a quick trip to death row-- or at least, so many Americans prefer to believe.

My point about giving credit to our good soldiers in Iraq is to remind the poster named "powersmaker" the majority of US soldiers DO NOT resort to the berserk behavior with which the eight Marines are accused.

Instead, many of our good soldiers quietly return home with combat stress fatigue and psychiatric disorders. For them, the Bush regime has no sympathy, and tried even to reduce funding in some VA areas, in addition to cutting a planned increase in aid to military families. Clearly, an American public-- informed, concerned and angry about Bush and his kingdom of lies-- is a principal defense network for our soldiers, back in the states.

[Free Citizen]

alphaa10, no one is slighting the soldiers. It is the regime in Washington that has put America in a war with another nation. A nation that has done no wrong to the US. In short, it is an illegal war. American sons have died in that war for what? For whom? No one is denying the bravery of the American soldiers but is this war a righteous war? Every Iraqi faction wants the foreign forces out of their country but Bush and Gates want to put more troops there. When and what will it take for you to realise that the civil war going on there is an internal Iraqi problem. Not yours. Who interfered with America when it had its civil war? Which foreign nation sent troops to quell the fighting between the Unionists and the Confederates? You know, America must learn to mind their own business. No nation will tolerate the meddling of its internal affairs by foreign forces.

[alphaa10-2009]

powersmaker said, "To all those who have already written off the marines as guilty ...

you got nothin until you have experienced what they did / are. Go back to bed..."
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So, all the Iraq troops who have not been charged with murder have no experience or "real" understanding of war? Your lack of logic reveals it is long past your bedtime...

If you are upset about "writing off Marines", rest assured the military is notorious for ignoring things like My Lai, so the accused are in friendly territory with judges who are not about to "write them off". We hope they honor America and its values and laws with their decision.

It is also time the rest of our good soldiers got credit for representing our country's values and standards, even in war. How many of them do not go on killing rampages, despite daily threat of IEDs taking two or three of them daily?

What makes good Nazis is the willingness to obey, obey, and obey-- and then cover up the mass graves and deny everything, even to their own family-- even to themselves.

[Free Citizen]

I agree with j-whitman, FeelFree1, fascistusa, RandalDS, et al. This is all BS! A horrible crime was committed against Iraqi civilians and the perpetrators of the crime is free to go holiday shopping? What kind of sick nation will do this to another nation. No remorse, no moral obligation at all. The crime was committed on Iraqi soil, they should be handed over to the Iraqi authorities to be tried by Iraqi law. No other authority be it the US military of the American court of law have the right to decide otherwise. Don't believe the Iraqis will be impartial? Well, they should have thought of that before they went on a killing rampage.

[j-whitman]

What does SOB Bush say ?? "Just go shopping",,, We have a President who couldn't care less about our troops or national security.... ***'s only concerned with spinning his failed legacy.

[feelfree1]

According to the best available estimate, published recently in the Lancet medical journal, more than 650,000 Iraqis have died so far, as a result of the illegal U.S.-led war of aggression against Iraq. Many, many, more innocent Iraqis have been humiliated, imprisoned, tortured, raped, and/or sodomized by U.S. agents.

It is little wonder that U.S. troops are so clearly unwanted in Iraq. %u201CGreeted as Liberators%u201D? I think not. This was just another faith-based lie, fabricated by the Bush regime to justify their crimes.

The Iraqi people have every right to defend themselves against the brutal and illegal invasion and destruction of their country, and against the puppet collaborators of the invading forces.

The recent effort to blame the people of Iraq for the Made in America catastrophe, which we have collectively delivered to them, really plumbs new depths of contemptibility in my opinion.

At any rate, I would agree that even the most heinous murder, rape, and torture offenders in our military ranks, even they deserve an apology from the despicable and illegitimate Bush-puppet-Fuhrer regime.