Ignorant Fools

When Jack Murtha brought up last week that the military would announce that Marines killed Iraqi civilians in cold blood the fury on the Right was palpable. Murtha was a traitor, an alarmist, the scourge of his country, and anyway the report wasn't official yet, so what does he know?

Memo to the right blogosphere: Jack Murtha has better sources than you do.

A military investigation into the deaths of two dozen Iraqis last November is expected to find that a small number of marines in western Iraq carried out extensive, unprovoked killings of civilians, Congressional, military and Pentagon officials said Thursday.

Two lawyers involved in discussions about individual marines' defenses said they thought the investigation could result in charges of murder, a capital offense. That possibility and the emerging details of the killings have raised fears that the incident could be the gravest case involving misconduct by American ground forces in Iraq.

Officials briefed on preliminary results of the inquiry said the civilians killed at Haditha, a lawless, insurgent-plagued city deep in Sunni-dominated Anbar Province, did not die from a makeshift bomb, as the military first reported, or in cross-fire between marines and attackers, as was later announced. A separate inquiry has begun to find whether the events were deliberately covered up.

Evidence indicates that the civilians were killed during a sustained sweep by a small group of marines that lasted three to five hours and included shootings of five men standing near a taxi at a checkpoint, and killings inside at least two homes that included women and children, officials said.

I've seen the video of Haditha. It's horrific. Murtha was right to get this in the open, forcing the Pentagon brass not to cover it up. I'm sure that's why his sources high up in the military told him to do so.

The bloggers that slandered him merely because they wanted to stick their head in a washing machine so they didn't have to hear the truth about what goes on in Iraq are cowardly, irrational, and frankly, stupid. They shamelessly attack everyone who hasn't fallen in love with their pretty little war, and they've set their humanity aside and picked up pom-poms, cheerleading relentlessly and yelling at the top of their lungs to everyone else to "clap louder!"

This idiot writes TODAY that Murtha is a disgrace, while acknowledging that the allegations "could be true." Then he tries to shift the debate by saying that a few stories of abuse shouldn't mean that America should turn against the war. It's a nice trick, but of course nobody said that. He also claims that Murtha was condemning the soldiers when he clearly called out the senior leadership for putting them in such a pressure-packed situation. So according to this guy, we shouldn't blame the policy, AND we shouldn't condemn the soldiers. In other words, we shouldn't say a peep about anything and let the "grown-ups" do their job.

These mewling little children can't let the facts reach their precious ears. They focus on irrelevancies like Jesse MacBeth when the reality is too painful to bear. They want to wear glasses colored with rose and make happy talk while death envelops the region. And they want to eliminate anyone who breaks the protective bubble they constructed to shield themselves from harm.