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Thursday, June 01, 2006

Sons of Iwo Jima

I continue to be disgusted by the left and the mainstream media's coverage of the war, the are trying to live Vietnam all over again. I saw an article yesterday headlined "The Real Cost of War". Huh?

What about the cost of defeat? Are they prepared to get on their knees and pray to mecca 5 times per day in order to have peace? Are they willing to let homosexuals be brutally murdered in the street because they are an abomination in the eyes of Allah?

We are at risk of being driven back to the 17th century by religious zealots who seek nuclear weapons, not for detante', but for world domination. We can not sit by and hope that it goes away and we cannot continue to put up with near sedition by our elected officials and their ally's in the press.

From IBD:
Posted 5/30/2006


War In Iraq: The press is salivating over the prospect of an Iraqi My Lai in the town of Haditha, with ABC trotting out Rep. John Murtha to brand U.S. troops war criminals just in time for Memorial Day.


Appearing Sunday on ABC's "This Week," and with the matter still under investigation, Murtha, D-Pa., decided it would be sentence first and trial later when he proclaimed Marines responding to an attack in the town of Haditha on Nov. 19 guilty of murder of at least 15 Iraqi civilians.

The incident began as a Marine convoy of Kilo Company, Third Battalion, First Marine Regiment, was passing through Haditha in the Iraqi province of Anbar. A roadside improvised explosive device (IED) went off, killing Lance Cpl. Miguel Terrazas, 20, of El Paso, who was on his second tour of duty.

According to Time magazine, an Iraqi civil rights group claims the Marines then barged into nearby houses, throwing grenades and shooting civilians randomly as they cowered in fear. Murtha believes the Time report. "I will not excuse murder," he said on ABC, "and this is what happened."

But Duncan Hunter, D-Calif., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, who got all the briefings on the matter Murtha got, says the "in cold blood" allegations by Murtha are all wet.

We're reminded of former Marine 2nd Lt. Ilario Pantano, whom we wrote about last year when he was charged with murder for killing two jihadists who had just fled a bomb-making house south of Baghdad. After the press had its fun, the Marines dropped all charges, finding him guilty only of defending his men.

"I know a little something about rushing to judgment," Pantano wrote in a letter to The Washington Post, "which is why I am so disturbed by the remarks of Rep. John Murtha regarding the Haditha incident. Let the courts decide if these Marines are guilty. They haven't even been charged with a crime yet, so it is premature to presume their guilt — unless that presumption is tied to a political motive."

In early May, the Marine Corps announced that a Marine charged with shooting an apparently injured and unarmed Iraqi in a Fallujah mosque that had been used as a sanctuary and an armory for jihadists would not face court-martial. The Marine was found to be justified in perceiving a threat and using deadly force.

The next time you surf the Internet, do a Google search on Rafael Peralta. In that same November 2004 battle for Fallujah, Marine Sgt. Peralta was shot in the head and chest at close range as they went house to house clearing the town of jihadists. As he lay dying on the floor of a terrorist hideout, he saw a yellow, foreign-made grenade that if it had detonated would have taken out his entire squad. To save his fellow Marines, he reached out, grabbed the grenade and tucked it under his abdomen, where it exploded.

Lt. Pantano and Marines such as those at Haditha face a death sentence every day in a war with an enemy that obeys no rules. They are heroes, not war criminals. Yet there are some who think their reward for putting their lives on the line for their country and doing their duty to the best of their ability should be a murder charge, just because they don't like the policy that put them there.

There's one thing these men are that many in the media and Congress are not — and it is shown in the Marine motto. Semper fi.

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