WAIT AND RESERVE JUDGEMENT

THE FUROR OVER THE ALLEGED MASSACRE OF 24 IRAQI CIVILIANS IN HADITHA AND THE KILLING OF 14 CIVILIANS IN ISHAQI INCLUDING 5 CHILDREN IS IF FOUND TO BE TRUE A HORRIBLE VIOLATION BY A FEW MARINES WHICH MUST BE PROSECUTED TO THE FULL MEASURE OF MILITARY JUSTICE. THE KEY WORDS HERE ARE "ALLEGED" AND PROVEN GUILTY".
THE LEFTIST BUSH HATING, ANTI-MILITARY MEDIA HAS ALL BUT DECLARED THE MEN ACCUSED OF THIS HEINOUS CRIME GUILTY OF A MASSACRE IN THE NATURE OF VIET NAMS MY LAI. NOTHING CAN BE FARTHER FROM THE TRUTH WHICH ALL JOURNALIST SHOULD HOLD DEAR TO THEM, BUT HAVE APPARENTLY PUT ASIDE SO THEY CAN CONTINUE THEIR "ANTI-ADMINISTRATION" HARANGUE.
FIRST AND FOREMOST IS THE FACT THAT IN IRAQ THERE ARE 35 PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE TWO INCIDENTS. MY LAI INVOLVED THE MURDER OF 300 WOMEN AND CHILDREN WAS DIRECTED BY AN OFFICER. THIS OFFICER WAS FOUND GUILTY BY A MILITARY COURT AND SENT TO A MILITARY PRISON, AFTER DUE PROCESS WAS ALLOWED TO HAPPEN.

SOME HOW I MISSED THE MAIN STREM ARTICLES AND VIDEOS ON TELEVISION WHEN IT WAS LEARNED THAT ON AUGUST 2,2004 12 IRAQI CHRISTIAN CIVILIANS WERE MURDERED BY ISLAMIC RADICALS WHO RAIDED 5 CHURCHES IN IRAQ. BUT I DIGRESS! THE KNOWN FACTS ARE THE FOLLOWING. ON THE 20TH OF NOVEMBER FOLLOWING THE KILLING OF A MARINE TRAVELING IN A VEHICLE DESTROYED BY A ROADSIDE BOMB. IT IS CHARGED THAT A GROUP OF ENLISTED MARINE RIFLEMAN ENTERED 3 SEPERATE HOUSES KILLING 23 WOMEN AND CHILDREN. THEY THEN DRAGED A MAN FROM HIS CAR AND SHOT HIM DEAD.THE MARINES ALLEGEDLY REPORTED TO THEIR SUPERIORS THAT THEY KILLED THE PEOPLE IN A "FIRE FIGHT" AFTER THEIR COMRADE HAD BEEN KILLED. THIS ENDED THE ISSUE UNTIL A "JOURNALISM STUDENT" SUBMITTED A VIDEO ALLEGEDLY SHOWING THE 3 HOUSES INVOLVED AND DEAD BODIES OF THOSE KILLED BY THE MARINES. AT THAT TIME TIME MAGAZINE DECIDED THE VIDEO WAS IRAQI PROPAGANDA AND DECLINED TO PUBLISH ANYTHING. HOWEVER, MARCH 27,2006 IT DECIDED TO PUBLISH AN ARTICLE FEATURING A STATEMENT "MARINES RAN AMOK"! WHAT THEY FAILED TO HIGHLIGHT WAS THE FACT THAT JUST A FEW DAY BEFORE, THE MARINES SUFFERED 13 KILLED BY ROADSIDE BOMBS, AND 6 MARINES DIED DURING A GUN BATTLE WITH SOME OF THE TOWNS "CIVILIANS"! THE SAME TOWN WHERE THE ALLEGED "MURDERS" HAPPENED. IT ALSO WAS NOT NOTED THAT THE MARINES HAVE SUFFERED THE MOST CASUALTIES IN IRAQ OF ANY SERVICE INVOLVED. THIS DOES NOT JUSTIFY DELIBERATE MURDER OF UNARMED CIVILIANS. BUT JUST HOW MANY MEN AND WOMEN SERVING IN IRAQ HAVE BEEN KILLED BY WHAT THEY THOUGHT WERE INNOCENT CIVILIANS?

BECAUSE OF THE MEDIA FRENZY.THE MARINE CORPS HAS BEGUN GIVING THEIR TROOPS ETHICS TRAINING. THIS FOR TRAINED WARRIORS WHOSE PRIMARY PURPOSE IS TO KILL THE ENEMY BEFORE THEY OR THEIR BUDDIES ARE KILLED. TALK ABOUT SENDING A MIXED MESSAGE!

I HOPE THES MARINES DIDN'T DO WHAT THEY ARE CHARGED WITH, BUT FOR GODS SAKE AT LEAST BACK OFF ON JUDGEMENT UNTIL THEY ARE GIVEN A FAIR TRIAL. EVEN SADAM IS BEING GIVEN A FAIR TRIAL. THE MAN KNOWN FOR THE MURDERR OF THOUSANDS OF HIS OWN PEOPLE!