Haditha, Your thoughts Options

[chook]

yeah the whole "I support the troops but not what they're doing" is the biggest crock o shit ever.

I personally do not like the whole situation. I think that the president and those who send the troops should be investigated. The troops are stuck in the shit and they need our support.

[Hartmann]

On a personal note I think the whole ordeal stinks and believe the news is made by "open minded" people.

I disagree. I think that yes, some newspeople are open-minded but people like Matt Lauer make news reporters look like close-minded arrogant pricks.

[Guest_CANNONBALL_*]

These are the same open minded people who goto protests but do not vote, stress the empty slogan "support our troops, bring them back home" while calling out the "autrocities" of our troops.

yeah that is a major mind blower.

in the military if someone below you fucks up, you are held accountable. period. hell I've been because one of my guys got a DUI.

the level of how high "accountability" goes is directly proportional to the severity of the deed.

in the case of haditha...I'd say that is about as severe as it gets. but who is held accountable? the troops themselves and that is all.

so what if a couple officers were relieved? they sure as shit aren't in solitary and shackles.

it seems that this accountablity thing only goes so high...and that if it's REALLY serious, the leaders disappear.

nice.

[Guest_CANNONBALL_*]

I personally do not like the whole situation. I think that the president and those who send the troops should be investigated. The troops are stuck in the shit and they need our support.

agreed. hold them accountable for their shitty intel and motivations for this war. not the guys who get sent into a fucked up situation.

[chook]

I disagree. I think that yes, some newspeople are open-minded but people like Matt Lauer make news reporters look like close-minded arrogant pricks.

I do not know too much about him. I know he is on MSNBC, but noone watches that.

[schwab]

different one than haditha but still along the same lines

3 U.S. soldiers charged with killing of Iraqis

Monday, June 19, 2006 Posted: 2001 GMT (0401 HKT)

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Three members of the 101st Airborne Division have been charged in connection with the deaths of three detainees during an operation in Salaheddin province, Iraq, the U.S. military announced Monday.

A military news release said the charges in the case include murder, attempted murder, conspiracy, communicating a threat, and obstructing justice.

The release said the unit commander ordered an investigation on May 9, the day the alleged murders occurred in the south of Salaheddin province, and the Army's Criminal Investigative Division is continuing the probe.

The soldiers charged in the case are in pretrial confinement, the release said, while it is determined if enough evidence exists to proceed with courts-martial.

The U.S. military also is investigating whether up to eight Marines from Kilo company of the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, killed 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha and engaged in a cover-up after one of their own was killed in a roadside bombing. Three Marines have been relieved of their duties.

None of the Marines has been charged in that incident, alleged to have occurred on November 19.

In another investigation, the exhumed body of an Iraqi man allegedly murdered by U.S. Marines last April was being examined at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, where investigators were looking for evidence about his shooting death in Hamdaniya on April 26.

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06...rged/index.html

[Seeker]

i don't give a shit that iraqis in haditha got murdered
i don't give a shit that americans got murdered

if you don't wanna die don't be a war zone

[pysex]

you know what....fuck em all

when insurgents start disguising themselves as friendlies and lead our guys into traps that's when you start carpet bombing their homes....


i don't blame these soldiers for doing this. i'd do the same damn thing if i pulled my buddy out of a hole with his face cut off by a sand nigger's machete...

[Guest_CANNONBALL_*]

sand nigger?!?! awesome!

desert shield called...he wants his derogatory term back.

[Seeker]

what's the latest and greatest slur? towelhead?

i must know so i can spout stylish slurs

[Guest_CANNONBALL_*]

hadji has been the term for some time.

sand nigger didn't last long in the early 90's due to the large amount of BLACK NEGROS in the mil.

I just hadnt heard 'sand niggers' in years...god that is funny shit that brings a smile.