I’ve heard this on the news a couple of times today and it makes me so angry I can barely breathe.

Apparently, Congressman Murtha has accused Marines of murder for going into a house in Iraq and killing the occupants after they had been fired upon by someone in that house.

What is WRONG with this person!?!?

Either he is NOT what he claims to be, a battle tested veteran, or he has wet-brain and needs to be put out to pasture.

If he has indeed been in battle himself, then he KNOWS, HE KNOWS what this kind of sedition and treason does to the morale of our men in combat. He knows it leads to lower morale and increased casualties. It gives aid and comfort to the enemy.

Whichever it is, he needs to SHUT UP!

If there was fire coming from this house prior to the Marines entering, they were doing WHAT THEY ARE TRAINED to do by killing the occupants of the house. OF COURSE they were ‘on their knees praying’. You would be on your knees praying too if a bunch of United States Marines were entering YOUR house after you’d been shooting at them.

Don’t send our troops to battle with their hands tied.

I can’t find a source on the internet right now. I’ll include it when I find it. I’ve just heard it on the TV.

Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged.

~ Abraham Lincoln

When did we quit hanging people for treason?

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Update: Carry on America was kind enough to supply an online source for my outrage. The Army Times and Breitbart.

This article is even more enraging:

Rep. John Murtha, an influential Pennsylvania lawmaker and outspoken critic of the war in Iraq, said today Marines had “killed innocent civilians in cold blood” after allegedly responding to a roadside bomb ambush that killed a Marine during a patrol in Haditha, Iraq, Nov. 19.

and

A March 27 Time magazine report published claims by an Iraqi civil rights group that the Marines barged into houses near the bomb strike, throwing grenades and shooting civilians as they cowered in fear. The report prompted calls for a Pentagon probe.

“It’s much worse than was reported in Time magazine,” Murtha, a Democrat, former Marine colonel and Vietnam war veteran, told reporters on Capitol Hill.

and

Time magazine spent 10 weeks interviewing local residents affected by the incident and, in January, shared these accounts with military officials in Baghdad.

Perhaps while Time Magazine is spending so much time interviewing insurgents to get allegations against OUR MARINES, they can get a little information about who are planting the IEDs that are killing so many of our Soldiers. I suppose they aren’t interested in actually helping our side.

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Discussion is going on at Mudville Gazette and here

Hugh Hewitt calls it irresponsible.

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