He’s betraying the troops! Just like that scumbag, Jack Murtha, he’s spreading stories about the Marines in Haditha, but even worse, he wants the Senate to investigate what they did!
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A senior Republican Senator vowed on Sunday to hold hearings on U.S. Marines’ role in the deaths of up to two dozen Iraqi civilians last November as a leading Democratic war critic alleged a military cover-up.
The U.S. military is investigating the November 19 incident in Haditha, about 140 miles northwest of Baghdad. The military has said 15 civilians were killed, while other accounts put the number at about 24.
Senator John Warner told ABC news the Senate committee he heads would probe “what happened and when it happened and what was the immediate reaction of the senior officers in the Marine Corps when they began to gain knowledge of it.”
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Oh, and wingnuts, that unnamed (at least in the lead paragraph of this story) “leading Democratic war critic” is Congressman Jack Murtha (I’ll spare you the trouble of having to read the whole article to find that out). You know who Murtha is, of course. The Democratic Congressman and former decorated Marine war hero that you’ve claimed is someone who made wild, unfounded accusations, is irresponsible, has betrayed the Marines, is a traitor, a liar, and much, much worse, when he stated that the US Military’s own investigation would report that Marines killed innocent Iraqi civilians in Haditha last November.
So, strictly in the interest of fair and balanced coverage, I assume that all of you you will be giving Senator Warner the same treatment you gave Murtha, yes?
I mean, what Warner’s proposing is much worse. He wants actual hearings with sworn witnesses, hearings open to the public, hearings that might actually be covered by that gawdawful Liberal media (or at the very least televised on that bastion of commie pinko Islamofascist appeasement, C-Span). A silly moonbat and minor Democratic politician such as Murtha speaking out about this “incident” is one thing. He can be easily marginalized and dismissed, after all, as just another America hating leftie, despite his distinguished record of service to his country. But a full blown Senate investigation led by a prominent Republican? That could really give this story real legs!
On the other hand, if you just can’t bring yourself to slander and smear a fellow Republican, then you must apologize for all the nasty things you said about Murtha. Because either Murtha and Warner are both:
1. Crazy, Terrorist-loving, Marine-hating,Ttroop Morale-busting Slimeballs
or
2. American Patriots who are trying to discover the truth and inform the American Public (which includes both you, as conservative wingnut, and me, as a denizen of the liberal fever swamp) about what our military occupation of Iraq has truly cost our country in terms of lost lives, wasted tax dollars and squandered moral authority.
Now, I don’t really expect any of you to apologize to Jack Murtha, or even to acknowledge that what he told the truth when he announced that an internal investigation by the military would show an atrocity had been committed at Haditha by Marines. That’s asking a lot of you at this point, a fact of which I am fully cognizant.
So I look forward to the raft of slanders and smears, name-calling and outrage which you will surely direct toward senator Warner as a result of today’s story in the Washington Post. I’m sure it will be just as creative and enlightening as all the bile you’ve previously spewed Jack Murtha’s way.
Marine Massacre of Iraqis in Haditha
Senate investigation of Haditha massacre