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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May 19th, 2006 at 11:26 am
Yes there are different opinions:
It’s been: my old boss Paul Bremer and Gens. Shinseki, Zinni, Baptiste, McCafferty and most military people for more troops vs. Rumsfeld for less troops. Bush and Rumsfeld wanted to fight the war on the cheap or to support their ideas of “transformation.”
Rumsfeld in particular: he opposed expanding the size of the Army, so those soldiers who are in the Army have to serve longer tours and go back again and again.
I think it’s water under the bridge now: if we had started out the right way and had enough troops to stop the looting, restore order, crush the insurgency at the beginning and enough money to provide jobs and hope to the Iraq people, then we would be down to much less troops than we have there now.
But now, we’ve got very little accomplished in basic infrastructure (electricity, water, health) and the violence is getting worse.
I would not support a draft with this incompetent crowd in charge, I advised my sons not to join. They do not care about soldiers, only their crazy ideas.
May 25th, 2006 at 6:52 pm
You see, in my view, our Soldiers are the innocents - not the insurgents. The blood of all of islam is not worth a drop of an American Soldier’s blood.
You see, in my view “soldiers” who murder children in cold blood are war criminals who should be hanged and cremated and dumped into a river. Assuming that’s what happened of course. Your willingness to excuse murder is disgusting. I think you’d be right at home in the einstatzgruppen or the death’s head battalions. whovian222@msn.com
June 1st, 2006 at 4:16 am
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June 1st, 2006 at 5:33 pm
…. Just dropped in to the neighborhood to gather good fodder for my newest posting. I should lieave more comments, and my apologies for not doing so more often,… I love your site. What a great treasure trove.
June 23rd, 2006 at 3:30 am
good blog, beth! thank God there are people who still support the troops and don’t stab them in the back when they need them the most.
all this crap about Murtha is a Marine Colonel so he understands. that should tell you right there that he didn’t do a damn thing besides press his uniform. The very small percentage of guys that are in combat day in and day out are about 99% low-ranked infantry(or other combat arms) soldiers. trust me when i say, i know EXACTLY every emotion that went through those guys’ heads. I don’t have to get information from what someone else might say because, unlike 99% America, i was there, and i was a grunt.
But it’s funny how the “veterans” that were probably the same guys that were eating three meals a day, showering every day, getting a good night sleep, and always managed to press their uniform are the ones saying that the soldiers are immmoral. Any soldier who can’t relate with them should shut up because they never experienced war. yeah, they experienced deployment but not war. But let’s go ahead and kill some soldiers!!! (sarcasm) nevermind the Ali Baba, let’s kill the only people who still have courage left in this country! I just wish people can’t fathom the idea of what it is really like to truly hate somone. Unfortunately, most people aren’t brave enough to join combat arms.
But for any soldier that says these guys are cruel and immoral…tell me, how many friends of yours did you watch die or get their limbs blown off? It’s bad that the American civilians protest but our own soldiers are selling our own guys out!!! now, that’s a traitor!
and you know what’s funny you get guys like “iraq participant” which yeah, thankyou for serving your country, but come on now. you were in an Army reserve training class one day and someone told you something about war!!??!?!! that doesn’t make your story have any credibility. nobody on earth could tell you what combat is really like so I’m not even going to try. Also, SF is a much cooler job than infantry, but infantry is much more stressful because you deal with a lot more bull shit. And this is coming from a REAL GRUNT that these marines should be TREATED. they do need psychological help, but they don’t need or deserve punishment. Also, don’t try and glorify what you did and make it sound exciting…you were a pogue/POG(piece of garbage). you don’t know anything about war, obviously, so don’t try and kill Marines that actually had the courage to fight.
ever heard of PTSD??? yeah, there are actual physical changes that go on in the brain. Unfortunately, people can’t fathom what these guys actually feel. How can you convict someone when you don’t even know if they were in the right state of mind? How about treating these guys? Instead of making the actual combat soldier more afraid to do his job and afraid of his own countrymen.
Why don’t you read about the Zimbardo prison study! that shows that everyone has a breaking point. hell, basic pyschology should tell you that. you don’t put people in unforgiving environments and not expect them to react. it’s poor leadership though. Bush should have snipped this in the butt, but he’s more focused on his own reputation. i guess dropping bombs and killing a lot more civilians is worse than getting revenge for a friend’s death.(sarcasm) and no! i am very much pro-fighting the war on terrorism.
-Former infantryman
August 13th, 2006 at 7:01 am
“Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale & undermine the military are saboteurs & should be arrested, exiled, or hanged.†- President Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln never said this. Ever. This quote is a fabrication of Dr. J. Michael Waller, a long time Republican pundit, who first wrote it in a Moonie publication, Insight Magazine on December 23, 2003 shortly before the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth gave it life in 2004.
I have two original King & Baird pamphlets in my collection, the identical pamphlet Waller sites as his proof, “TRUTH FROM AN HONEST MANâ€Â. Lincoln never wrote anything like this … here, or anywhere else.
How pathetic has the Republican Party become that it insults the reputation of America’s finest Republican president for their political gain?
Cliff Hancuff
The World of Journalism Is Flat, Too
February 16th, 2007 at 5:13 am
Here is a letter i wrote to Big Head! Murtha!
To: Jack Murtha Congressmen Date: 2/15/07
From: Michael J Whittington.
Dear liberal. You are trying to under fund are troops and playing political games with the men and women who are protecting are freedom and the freedom idiots like yourself do not deserve. Instead of supporting the men and women who put there lives on the line for trash as your self you are trying to destroy this country. We the people are going to block you and your liberal friends of any blocking of are troops. The people will be heard on this topic and will not stand by as fat lawmakers as your self sitting behind your desk making problems for are troops. We are sick and tired of liberals as your self making problems for the troops and your cut and run political fallout. You are gutless and spineless as a man and far from a man. I have 4 children unlike liberals like you who do not support the Jessica law. We will support are troops and do what ever we can to keep them from people like your self trying to screw them. It’s really sad that you think you are slick with this little program you have put together to under fund the troops but we and FOX NEWS will make sure the people see what you are really trying to do to are troops. You need to retire because your age and thoughts are not reality. You’re too old and you seem like you have all timers because the way you are thinking is crazy. We need to get the old out and in with the new young congressmen because people like you are not doing what’s right for the people and are troops and we will not stand by and let you play your little politic games with are troops. You liberals all should pack your bags and get out of are country and go live in IRAN where you will be greeted with open arms. You are a disgrace to the uniform and a trader in a time of war. Take your hearing aid out because you sure don’t listen to the people.
THE PEOPLES VOICE
Michael J Whittington
February 16th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
cry treason on your own as much as you like, but consider this http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-13566840,00.html
February 16th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
PS, Michael, learn to spell
its our troops
their lives
I’m neither rupublican nor democrat, or ‘liberal’ as you put it, I’m british, your ’supposed’ ally
February 16th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
you might be interested in this
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,11021-10043,00.html