Sister Toldjah!
6/20/2006 - 11:25 am

I wonder if the MSM news outlets will saturate the airwaves and their news sites with this one?

Haditha Report to Fault Oversight, Official Says
But the findings apparently do not indicate a deliberate cover-up by officers looking into the slayings of 24 Iraqi civilians.

WASHINGTON — The general charged with investigating whether Marines tried to cover up the killing of 24 civilians in Haditha has completed his report, finding that Marine officers failed to ask the right questions, an official close to the investigation said Friday.

Nothing in the report points to a “knowing cover-up” of the facts by the officers supervising the Marines involved in the November incident, the official said. Rather, he said, officers from the company level through the staff of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force in Baghdad failed to demand “a thorough explanation” of what happened in Haditha.

Malkin reminds us of what John Murtha said three weeks ago (via the WaPo):

A powerful member of Congress alleged yesterday that there has been a conscious effort by Marine commanders to cover up the facts of a November incident in which rampaging Marines allegedly killed 24 Iraqi civilians.

“There has to have been a coverup of this thing,” Rep. John P. Murtha (Pa.), ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations defense subcommittee, charged in an interview on ABC’s “This Week.” “No question about it.”

Read more via AllahPundit, who has some interesting PhotoShopped pix of Rep. John “No question about it” Murtha.

There’s a small glimpse of ‘hope’ however, for those who want to use what happened in Haditha to delegitimize the Iraq war:

In an official announcement about the report by Army Maj. Gen. Eldon Bargewell, a military spokeswoman said that Army Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli would “thoroughly review the voluminous report as quickly as possible,” but had no timetable.

They’ll be pinning their hopes that the thorough review will come up with just the opposite conclusion.

Also blogging about this: Captain Ed, Riehl World View, Flopping Aces, Macsmind,

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Comments

  1. Let’s hope the prejudging of the Marines stops at the very least (thought I can’t see that from the left at this point).

    Not only should htey stop prejudging but they should APOLOGIZE for their shameful behavior and conviction before the evidence and trial and defense was given.

    Comment by Baklava @ 6/20/2006 - 12:18 pm

  2. That Allah pundit post was GREAT!

    Comment by Baklava @ 6/20/2006 - 12:27 pm

  3. Riehl world views has this to say:

    Look what the LA Times buried at the end:

    The American Civil Liberties Union on Friday released a heavily redacted version of a military report on detainee abuses by special operations forces in Iraq. The report concludes that a series of sensational allegations by detainees could not be substantiated.

    Comment by Baklava @ 6/20/2006 - 12:29 pm

  4. sensational allegations by detainees could not be substantiated ????

    Will the left please stand up and take a bow for being really gullible. Thank you. NOW SIT DOWN.

    You can’t FLUSH a book (the Koran) down a toilet!! Physics 101 is all you need for this one. Matter does not dissappear. Matter matters.

    Claims that U.S. solidiers handcuffed babies and the elderly is a sick Hollywood film but probably not reality!

    Claims that we slaughtered animals in Iraq are too far out there!

    If you are a member of the left. Please CLOSE your mouth. Step away from the keyboard and do some hard labor for a month in repentance. Step up to the plate and give to charity in as much percentages as conservatives do. Show people you ACTUALLY care as much as your lying gullible buts claim to care.

    Comment by Baklava @ 6/20/2006 - 12:34 pm

  5. An LA Times piece that slaps the ACLU?

    The first two paragraphs:

    THE “GOTCHA” crowd has fallen on its face again.

    In an effort to show that on the Bush administration’s evil watch the U.S. military has been systematically mistreating prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan with tacit approval or even outright encouragement from its civilian superiors, the American Civil Liberties Union has been demanding the release of dozens of internal military investigative reports. But the two reports on U.S. detainee policy just released in response to an ACLU lawsuit paint a picture quite the opposite of what the ACLU expected.

    Comment by Baklava @ 6/20/2006 - 1:06 pm

  6. I’m sorry to keep posting but these are beautiful paragraphs:

    Predictably, the ACLU has cried “whitewash.” But what we are seeing is the refusal by administration critics to see anything other than the “torture narrative” they have constructed.

    That “narrative” goes like this: Bush and his war Cabinet opened the door to detainee abuse, first by refusing to accord captured Al Qaeda and Taliban members Geneva Convention rights, and second, by permitting the use of aggressive interrogation techniques. Therefore, says the human rights crowd, Bush and other senior officials are morally — and some say legally — responsible for all of the abuses that have taken place since Sept. 11, 2001. Although this story has become holy writ in liberal circles, it is legally preposterous and logically flawed.

    As a matter of law, guilt for war crimes can be imposed up the chain of command only when superiors have ordered the offending conduct or have failed to take appropriate disciplinary measures once they become aware that abusive conduct is taking place. But as these reports demonstrate, allegations of wrongdoing by U.S. forces have been thoroughly investigated and punished when called for. There simply is no rule of “strict liability” that would support the punishment of either military or civilian superior officers or officials without evidence that they ordered or condoned abuses.

    Comment by Baklava @ 6/20/2006 - 1:18 pm

  7. The Democrats keep insisting that since Murtha is an ex-Marine, that innoculates him against any criticism for his cowardly moonbat ideas, that we should respect and honor him.

    Hmmm..Wasn’t Lee Harvey Oswald an ex-Marine? I guess then that they think we must honor him as well, he wasn’t assassinating a siting president, he was just casting a retroactive veto on the election! A true patriot! A War Hero! Can’t say anything negative about him, unless you too were in the Marines!

    WRT the Koran incident, I have to admit that when I first heard about that ridiculous charge of Koran “abuse” I immediately thought about Vlad “The Impaler” Tepich, Prince of Romania, and his encounter with the Turkish ambassadors. They came into his throne room wearing their turbans, which he immediately told them to remove, it was rude to be in his presence with them on. They replied that they never went bareheaded in the presence of unbelievers. So, he had their turbans nailed to their heads, and their bodies sent back to the Sultan.

    I immediately thought that we should nail the Korans to the prisoner’s hands, so that we could ensure that no one else handled them in a disrespectful manner.

    Comment by Severian @ 6/20/2006 - 1:44 pm

  8. Ah…. But there is NOTHING Severian that we could do to convince the rioting Islamists (as Daniel Pipes calls them) who have a distorted perspective and inability to coinhabit the planet with Western Civilization and even people in the East because they are infidels and/or aligned with freedom and democracy.

    But we can AT LEAST expect or TRY TO EXPECT leftists here in this country who benefit from freedom and alternative viewpoints and news NOT to perpetuate FALSEHOODS from detainees or the enemy. Newsweek who started that one, Murtha who started this Haditha one, the ACLU who was just smacked down by the LATimes opinion piece, not only will not offer some doubt when given accusations but will say “there is no doubt” and add to the accusations with accusations of “cold blood”.

    Thier freedom of speech is making them look DUMB and I hope they CONTINUE. But I would hope that the new Haditha information is spread FAR and wide.

    Comment by Baklava @ 6/20/2006 - 2:01 pm

  9. Why are all the reporst about some supposed “cover-up”? Why aren’t we hearing about the actual facts on the ground? Why aren’t we hearing about the investigation?

    Cover up, my A$$! We need to investigate and sue Murtha!

    GAD!

    Comment by benning @ 6/20/2006 - 5:46 pm

  10. - I’m thinking Murtha has dug his hole pretty deep. He was fairly safe until he tipped his hand with the power grab try in his own party. Now they’ll turn on him like the pack of rabid dogs they are. Love to watch them eat their own…

    - Bang **==

    Comment by Big Bang Hunter @ 6/20/2006 - 7:24 pm

  11. Maybe they could a pay-per-view action to help fill the coffers. Nothing quite like a little leech on leech action to lather up the throngs.

    Comment by forest hunter @ 6/20/2006 - 7:42 pm

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