The Haditha, Iraq accusations of massacre is one of the hugest travesties of injustice propagandized and sold to the Mainstream Media (MSM) and consequently to the American people by the Left and the apparent alliance of sympathy for Islamist terrorists.
The so-called Haditha Massacre was being sold to the American people as the Iraqi version of My Lai Massacre (which was a real tragedy of truth perpetrated by members of the U.S. military) in the Vietnam War.
I have followed the lies of the Left at SlantRight.com for some time; however I have two bloggers that eloquently describe the current status of the frame-up of American Marines doing their patriotic duty to combat Islamofascist terrorists in Iraq.
JRH 10/9/07
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The so-called Haditha Massacre was being sold to the American people as the Iraqi version of My Lai Massacre (which was a real tragedy of truth perpetrated by members of the U.S. military) in the Vietnam War.
I have followed the lies of the Left at SlantRight.com for some time; however I have two bloggers that eloquently describe the current status of the frame-up of American Marines doing their patriotic duty to combat Islamofascist terrorists in Iraq.
JRH 10/9/07
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Haditha: searching for this war’s “defining atrocity”
NEO-NEOCON
October 8th, 2007 5:12 AM
My Lai was the template. A bona fide atrocity (see this for the complete My Lai story), it not only made the name of journalist Seymour Hersh and won him his coveted Pulitzer, but it profoundly shocked the American public and helped turn them against the Vietnam War.
And ever since the Iraq War began, the media has been searching for its My Lai. Abu Ghraib was an attempt to find one, but although it garnered enormous publicity and shamed the military, it wasn’t a good enough parallel. No one was killed, for example. A comparison of My Lai to Abu Ghraib illustrates the old Marxian adage the history repeats itself the first time as tragedy and the second as farce.
And so the media had to keep looking. They thought they had found what they were looking for in Haditha.
True, the scale wasn’t as great as in My Lai. But Haditha, unlike Abu Ghraib, featured the deaths of civilian innocents at the hands of Marines, and so it was close enough.
Time correspondent Tim McGirk broke the story in March of 2006, having received information and a videotape from Iraqi sources. However:
The contrast between the way the Haditha and the My Lai stories broke is instructive. In the latter, the incident came to light because of reports by American military forces who had themselves witnessed the killings, and an Army investigation was launched which unfortunately turned out to be a whitewash. After that, the American whistleblowers turned the information over to reporter Hersh, who publicized it and sparked a new investigation which led to the prosecution of the perpetrators.
In contrast, in Haditha, reporter McGirk was, by his own admission, actively searching for a story about civilian casualties, and then got in touch with some Iraqi groups who provided it. The investigation and prosecution was launched after the MSM broke the story, and the informants seem to have all been Iraqi, some of them of extremely questionable origin.
And now it turns out there is evidence that the entire thing may have been planned by al Qaeda operative intending to use the US media as a propaganda tool:
Gateway Pundit traces the NY Times’s (sic) Haditha coverage. One of the earliest articles states, “This is the nightmare that everyone worried about when the Iraq invasion took place.” I beg to differ; it was the nightmare many reporters hungered for, the story they were eager to break when the Iraq invasion took place, the new “defining atrocity” of the new bad war.
Before My Lai it was considered inconceivable that American soldiers could commit such atrocities. The pendulum then swung so far in the other direction that now it is considered inevitable that they will do so. So reporters have abandoned the healthy skepticism they require in order to ferret out the truth. Instead, all they feel they need to do is find the atrocity stories, write about them, and then sit back and garner their own Pulitzers.
Fortunately, this time I don’t think there’ll be a Pulitzer in it for Tim McGirk.
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Blogger #2
Haditha Engineered by Al-Qaeda - Marines Set up Al-Qaeda
This was posted by Kit at Euphoric Reality
Haditha Engineered by Al-Qaeda
October 8, 2007
Twana’s Blog
Oct 9, 2007 at 5:48 AM
I am trying as hard as I can to not scream “We TOLD you people!” but it refuses to stay under wraps. So…
We told you so. In fact, we told you on 22 June 2006 –over a year and a half ago–that the Haditha incident was nothing more than al-Qaeda setting up our Marines, and the media/politicans were falling for it. Now a new report shows that we were right all along. Our Marines aren’t “cold-blooded killers,” they’re heroes who did the best they could in the middle of trying to keep themselves alive while fighting a war that our own country won’t let them win.
But don’t believe us. Read the PDF report .
As the Jawa Report says, “Help in spreading the propaganda from Democrats, notably Jack Murtha, and a compliant mainstream press was a bonus for the terrorists.” How dumb do YOU feel, Murtha?
Bryan Preston at Hot Air has some interesting questions of his own.
So what now? Will SSGT Frank Wuterich be cleared? How about the rest of the Haditha Marines? Still waiting on Murtha’s apology. I’m guessing it’ll be a long time coming. Sort of like John Kerry’s Form 180.
We need to keep the pressure on. This is long past “travesty,” or even “tragedy.” It’s a circus, and it’s disgusting. Shame on everyone who’s ever touched this case and not seen the truth–or ignored it. Then again, it’s nothing we haven’t seen before. Remember the Pendleton 8? How about the Iron Triangle case? Ilario Pantano? Roger Maynulet? Daniel King? That’s what I thought.
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Thanks to NEO-NEOCON and Twana’s Blog.
Haditha: searching for this war’s “defining atrocity”
NEO-NEOCON
October 8th, 2007 5:12 AM
My Lai was the template. A bona fide atrocity (see this for the complete My Lai story), it not only made the name of journalist Seymour Hersh and won him his coveted Pulitzer, but it profoundly shocked the American public and helped turn them against the Vietnam War.
And ever since the Iraq War began, the media has been searching for its My Lai. Abu Ghraib was an attempt to find one, but although it garnered enormous publicity and shamed the military, it wasn’t a good enough parallel. No one was killed, for example. A comparison of My Lai to Abu Ghraib illustrates the old Marxian adage the history repeats itself the first time as tragedy and the second as farce.
And so the media had to keep looking. They thought they had found what they were looking for in Haditha.
True, the scale wasn’t as great as in My Lai. But Haditha, unlike Abu Ghraib, featured the deaths of civilian innocents at the hands of Marines, and so it was close enough.
Time correspondent Tim McGirk broke the story in March of 2006, having received information and a videotape from Iraqi sources. However:
- McGirk received his video “evidence” and contacts from two known Iraqi insurgent operatives already under observation by Marine Corps counter intelligence teams. One of the Iraqi witnesses McGirk relied on had just been released from almost six months captivity for insurgent activities and the other witness was considered a useful intelligence tool by Marines listening to him talk on his cell phone. McGirk never interviewed the Marines…
The contrast between the way the Haditha and the My Lai stories broke is instructive. In the latter, the incident came to light because of reports by American military forces who had themselves witnessed the killings, and an Army investigation was launched which unfortunately turned out to be a whitewash. After that, the American whistleblowers turned the information over to reporter Hersh, who publicized it and sparked a new investigation which led to the prosecution of the perpetrators.
In contrast, in Haditha, reporter McGirk was, by his own admission, actively searching for a story about civilian casualties, and then got in touch with some Iraqi groups who provided it. The investigation and prosecution was launched after the MSM broke the story, and the informants seem to have all been Iraqi, some of them of extremely questionable origin.
And now it turns out there is evidence that the entire thing may have been planned by al Qaeda operative intending to use the US media as a propaganda tool:
- The attack was carried out by multiple cells of local Wahabi extremists and well-paid local gunmen from Al Asa’ib al-Iraq [the Clans of the People of Iraq] that were led by Al Qaeda foreign fighters, the summary claims. Their case was bolstered by Marine signal intercepts revealing that the al Qaeda fighters planned to videotape the attacks and exploit the resulting carnage for propaganda purposes….During the November Haditha battle, the insurgents secreted themselves among local civilians to guarantee pursuing Marines would catch innocent civilians in the ensuing crossfire.
Gateway Pundit traces the NY Times’s (sic) Haditha coverage. One of the earliest articles states, “This is the nightmare that everyone worried about when the Iraq invasion took place.” I beg to differ; it was the nightmare many reporters hungered for, the story they were eager to break when the Iraq invasion took place, the new “defining atrocity” of the new bad war.
Before My Lai it was considered inconceivable that American soldiers could commit such atrocities. The pendulum then swung so far in the other direction that now it is considered inevitable that they will do so. So reporters have abandoned the healthy skepticism they require in order to ferret out the truth. Instead, all they feel they need to do is find the atrocity stories, write about them, and then sit back and garner their own Pulitzers.
Fortunately, this time I don’t think there’ll be a Pulitzer in it for Tim McGirk.
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Blogger #2
Haditha Engineered by Al-Qaeda - Marines Set up Al-Qaeda
This was posted by Kit at Euphoric Reality
Haditha Engineered by Al-Qaeda
October 8, 2007
Twana’s Blog
Oct 9, 2007 at 5:48 AM
I am trying as hard as I can to not scream “We TOLD you people!” but it refuses to stay under wraps. So…
We told you so. In fact, we told you on 22 June 2006 –over a year and a half ago–that the Haditha incident was nothing more than al-Qaeda setting up our Marines, and the media/politicans were falling for it. Now a new report shows that we were right all along. Our Marines aren’t “cold-blooded killers,” they’re heroes who did the best they could in the middle of trying to keep themselves alive while fighting a war that our own country won’t let them win.
But don’t believe us. Read the PDF report .
- The report - apparently overlooked by a Washington press corps awash in leaked Bargewell documents and secret Naval Criminal Investigative Service reports - shows that Marine Corps intelligence operatives were advised of the scheme to demonize the Marines by an informant named Muhannad Hassan Hamadi. The informant was snared by 3/1 Marines on December 11 2005 and decided to cooperate.
The attack was carried out by multiple cells of local Wahabi extremists and well-paid local gunmen from Al Asa’ib al-Iraq [the Clans of the People of Iraq] that were led by Al Qaeda foreign fighters, the summary claims. Their case was bolstered by Marine signal intercepts revealing that the al Qaeda fighters planned to videotape the attacks and exploit the resulting carnage for propaganda purposes…
During the November Haditha battle, the insurgents secreted themselves among local civilians to guarantee pursuing Marines would catch innocent civilians in the ensuing crossfire. On January 6, 2006 six insurgents who tried to do the same thing at another location in Haditha were turned in to Coalition authorities before they could mount a similar assault, the report says…
The captured insurgents revealed the attack was planned in Albu Hyatt, a nearby town where numerous Marines have been killed and wounded since the beginning of the war. The two main elements of the attack were the IED-initiated ambush on Route Chestnut and two IED ambushes planned along the so-called River Road that parallels the Euphrates River about 1.5 kilometers north of the Chestnut location.
The prisoners claimed the multi-pronged assault on the Marines was intended to garner local support by discrediting the Marines among the civilian population. If the coordinated attack had gone off as planned all three IED ambushes would have been sprung on the patrolling Marines almost simultaneously, the prisoners said. The insurgents plan depended on the Marines aggressively responding to the assaults to create as much carnage as possible.
As the Jawa Report says, “Help in spreading the propaganda from Democrats, notably Jack Murtha, and a compliant mainstream press was a bonus for the terrorists.” How dumb do YOU feel, Murtha?
Bryan Preston at Hot Air has some interesting questions of his own.
- This document is one among many that are related in some way to the case, but it cuts against Murtha’s entire body of statements on Haditha. It suggests, and with some credibility, that Haditha was an enemy op that went well if not according to plan. If Murtha knew of this report, but accused the Marines of murder “in cold blood” anyway, then he had to have been aware of the possibility that he was assisting an enemy op against our troops. If he didn’t know of this report, then his informants inside the Corps were not telling him the whole story. He still should not have been out front accusing the Marines of murder, but he may have been misled by his source or sources. Which raises the question, who were his sources and why would they plant an incomplete accounting of the case with Rep. Murtha?
So what now? Will SSGT Frank Wuterich be cleared? How about the rest of the Haditha Marines? Still waiting on Murtha’s apology. I’m guessing it’ll be a long time coming. Sort of like John Kerry’s Form 180.
We need to keep the pressure on. This is long past “travesty,” or even “tragedy.” It’s a circus, and it’s disgusting. Shame on everyone who’s ever touched this case and not seen the truth–or ignored it. Then again, it’s nothing we haven’t seen before. Remember the Pendleton 8? How about the Iron Triangle case? Ilario Pantano? Roger Maynulet? Daniel King? That’s what I thought.
___________________________
Thanks to NEO-NEOCON and Twana’s Blog.
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