Almost 1000 days in hell — for what?
Reuters today reports yet another exoneration in the matter of Haditha:
A military judge on Tuesday dismissed the case against the highest-ranking U.S. Marine charged in the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians at Haditha, whittling down the list of those who must still face justice for the 2005 killings to just the accused ringleader. Military Judge Col. Steven Folsom dropped all charges against Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani, who was accused of violating a lawful order and dereliction of duty…Folsom threw out the charges against Chessani after finding that a four-star general who oversaw the investigation was influenced by an investigator who later became his advisor.
The appalling Congressman Jack Murtha in 2006 found the Marines guilty of “murder” with zero evidence, and did so on the national stage:
“Who covered it up, why did they cover it up, why did they wait so long?” Murtha said on “This Week” on ABC. “We don’t know how far it goes. It goes right up the chain of command.”…”I will not excuse murder, and this is what happened…This is worse than Abu Ghraib.”
Haditha happened in November 2005. The Haditha Massacre entered the lexicon shortly after that, as a result of irresponsible, biased reporting in TIME Magazine and the MSM, and irresponsible, biased accusations like that by Congressman Murtha, all apparently in the service of an anti-war agenda with no consideration for the actual servicemen fighting actual battles with their lives at risk.
Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani and his comrades have suffered nearly 1000 days in hell from this persecution for no good reason whatsoever — and to the detriment of our armed services and the fine men who protect our freedoms. Who will give them back the three years of their lives that our enemies in Iraq, with the help of our media and Congress, have taken from them?
June 18th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Two years ago, Jack Dinocrat posted:
The Haditha persecution demonstrates that there are worse things than taking a pass.
Almost 1000 days in hell — for what?
So beancounters and lawyers can increase their power in the military. A similar situation is said to exist in Israel, where allegedly “lawyers are tasked with protecting enemy populations from the IDF.” (Cf. the Boumediene decision.)