Rep. John Murtha appeared on Hardball last night and made an obscene claim, he said that our Marines “killed civilians” in Iraq. This remark was followed by yet another reprehensible statement; Chris Matthews questioned if what Murtha was talking about like My Lai, to which the Congressman said that was “exactly it”.
As far as the incident is concerned, much of it seems to be based on one 9 year old’s version of events. One paragraph of the original Time piece sticks out:
According to Eman, the Marines then entered the living room. “I couldn’t see their faces very well—only their guns sticking into the doorway. I watched them shoot my grandfather, first in the chest and then in the head. Then they killed my granny.” She claims the troops started firing toward the corner of the room where she and her younger brother Abdul Rahman, 8, were hiding; the other adults shielded the children from the bullets but died in the process. Eman says her leg was hit by a piece of metal and Abdul Rahman was shot near his shoulder. “We were lying there, bleeding, and it hurt so much. Afterward, some Iraqi soldiers came. They carried us in their arms. I was crying, shouting ‘Why did you do this to our family?’ And one Iraqi soldier tells me, ‘We didn’t do it. The Americans did.
So let me get this straight? She couldn’t see the faces of the Marines, and then initially thought the Iraqi soldiers had done it, until told by them that it was the Americans.
It smells. For a WHOLE squad to snap would mean at least 13 individual Marines would have needed to be involved. But unlike Murtha I will not jump to conclusions and attempt to proclaim anyone innocent or guilty. There are other statements in the article that are susupect also. But I am too lazy to day to point them out , so go read the article and come to your own conclusion.
Someday Murtha the POS that he is will be facing Chesty Puller one on one; and I will be ringside for that one.
