Hobbit
04-03-2008, 11:58 AM
It looks like this whole 'Haditha as the new My Lai' story has pretty much fallen through, and I don't hear any apologies from Murtha or the media, without whom these marines never would have spent a day in jail. Like Reagen says, "Where do I go to get my reputation back."
Haditha: The Collapse of a Liberal Fiction
By Michael Reagan
You'd hardly know it if you relied on the mainstream media, but the government's case against the Haditha Marines took another body blow last Friday that may be the beginning of the end for this whole sorry attempt to severely punish eight heroic United States Marines for doing what they are trained to do.
In a surprise development on the day Lance Cpl. Stephen Tatum's court martial was scheduled to begin, all charges against him were dropped without explanation.
Tatum, facing charges of reckless endangerment and aggravated assault that could have sent him to prison for 18 years, was the fifth Marine -- and the second of three enlisted men -- to be exonerated, leaving only one enlisted Marine still facing court martial.
http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/MichaelReagan/2008/04/02/haditha_the_collapse_of_a_liberal_fiction
Haditha: The Collapse of a Liberal Fiction
By Michael Reagan
You'd hardly know it if you relied on the mainstream media, but the government's case against the Haditha Marines took another body blow last Friday that may be the beginning of the end for this whole sorry attempt to severely punish eight heroic United States Marines for doing what they are trained to do.
In a surprise development on the day Lance Cpl. Stephen Tatum's court martial was scheduled to begin, all charges against him were dropped without explanation.
Tatum, facing charges of reckless endangerment and aggravated assault that could have sent him to prison for 18 years, was the fifth Marine -- and the second of three enlisted men -- to be exonerated, leaving only one enlisted Marine still facing court martial.
http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/MichaelReagan/2008/04/02/haditha_the_collapse_of_a_liberal_fiction