Text 20295, 68 rader
Skriven 2006-05-21 07:36:15 av John Hull (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 20293 av Bob Ackley (1:2905/3)
Ärende: Iraq news
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Bob Ackley -> VERN HUMPHREY wrote:
 BA> Replying to a message of VERN HUMPHREY to BOB ACKLEY:

 BS>>>>> Perhaps "FIDO liberals" mourn for the dead, as TRUE
 BS>>>>> Christians worship.  In private.

 VH>>>> Notice he DIDN'T give you a name. :-)

 BA>>> Nor did you name a single person who celebrates the deaths of
 BA>>> American soldiers.

 VH>> Here's one for you:

 VH>> http://www.exposetheleft.com/2006/05/17/murtha-haditha/

 BA> I don't have regular Internet access, URL's are nice but I can't use them.

 VH>> Rep. John Murtha appeared on Hardball this evening and made an obscene
 VH>> claim, he said that our Marines "killed civilians" in Iraq. This
 VH>> remark was followed by yet another reprehensible statement; Chris
 VH>> Matthews questioned if what Murtha was talking about like My Lai, to
 VH>> which the Congressman said that was "exactly it".

 VH>> CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Let me ask you Mr. Murtha to give us some
 VH>> details about that. Draw us a picture of what happened at Haditha.

 VH>> REP. JOHN "JACK" MURTHA: Well, I'll tell you exactly what happened.
 VH>> One Marine was killed and the Marines just said we're going to take
 VH>> care - we don't know who the enemy is, the pressure was too much on
 VH>> them, so they went into houses and they actually killed civilians.
 VH>> And, and -

 VH>> MATTHEWS:-was this My Lai? Was this a case of - when you say cold
 VH>> blood Congressman, a lot of people think you're basically saying you
 VH>> got some civilians sitting in a room around a field and they're
 VH>> executed.

 VH>> MURTA: That's exactly it.

 VH>> RELATED: Senator John Kerry said our troops are "terrorizing Iraqi
 VH>> children".

 BA> Is it not just possible that the statement(s) by Mr. Murtha might be true?
 BA> I haven't heard the statements and the supposedly
 BA> anti-administration-like-all-print-media-is Omaha fishwrapper hasn't
 BA> carried the story at all.  O'Reilly was in a major snit
 BA> about it on Thursday but yesterday he was absolutely silent on the
 BA> matter ('course,
 BA> yesterday I didn't hear his whole show).

 BA> After all, there was that video shot a couple of years ago of the marine
 BA> shooting an unarmed, wounded Iraqi to death.  I believe one comment made
 BA> at the time was that Marines are taught to 'dead check' enemy casualties
 BA> so they can't rise up behind them.

 BA> Don't bother to say I'm labelling all US soldiers as cold-blooded
 BA> killers or
 BA> supporting those who do, because I'm not and I don't.  Nor do I celebrate
 BA> the deaths of US soldiers or other US citizens, so don't try to hang
 BA> that on
 BA> me either.

Whatever happened, you can take it to the bank that Murtha got it wrong.  He's
a lyin' sack of shit, and that has been shown to be fact the last time he shot
of his big mouth.

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