This is my first post on Haditha. I thought I might actually wait for the facts to come out before expressing an opinion, but it doesn’t seem that anyone else feels the need for facts. That is very unfortunate. If…

There was also a report from a USMC lance corporal who was in Haditha, who expressed his distress at having to clean up the scene and having the brains of a murdered young Iraqi girl fall out of her blasted head onto his uniform. I guess that was not enough for you,

The report will be out soon. The report will be authored by an Army major general. Military prosecutors will bring charges against those responsible. Will they be part of the left-wing conspiracy, too?

As an Army wife, I’ve been sick for days over this story. If it is true, it is not only a black eye on the military, but a horrific atrocity. If it is not, it will fade into the Roledex of everyone’s minds about how evil the military is.

This is simply not my experience. We’ve been in 13 years and have never witnessed anything capable of this. It sounds like insurgent tactics typical of this sort of battle.

I am suggesting that there is more to the story than meets the eye, and that we need to respect the REST of the soldiers who aren’t screw ups.

Somewhow I doubt it.

Sigh.

If I were as sophisticated a blogger as Expose the Left I could record the interview, although I DO have it on DVD, which will not translate to my computer. I am NOT accussing the little 9 year old Iraqi girl of wrongdoing; she has been victimized by war in the worst ways possible. However, even the CNN correspondent Ryan Chilcote noted how odd it was that the girl made the mistake in her story telling and that the human rights worker neglected to follow up on an obvious detail… that she EXPECTED the bomb to go off. She knew when it would explode and seemed to anticipate someone, arguably US Marines, entering her home. Hm..

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0605/30/pzn.01.html

My husband served in Iraq from March 2003-Feb. 2004 and this is totally symptomatic of an insurgent tactic. I have no way to know if it is true or not, but they are known for lying, using civilians as human shields and killing women and children, then blaming it on Americans and forcing at the point of grave intimidation the survivors to corroborate their story.

This is TOTALLY not in keeping with the US military. They just do NOT do this. If so, this is extremely depressing. As a military wife I have been depressed over the possiblity that it could be true. It would shake my faith. But there are some very odd details unanswered…