Marines cover up massacre in Iraq

Originally Posted by a lurker

No, you prefer to invent situations and apologise for them without any evidence for or against your arguments. That's not at all the same thing as the benefit of a doubt.

Originally Posted by Wesker

It seems more likely to me that after the IED went off there was gunfire directed at the Marines, as this is standard operating procedure for the insurgents. The Marines probably returned fire, perhaps with less discrimination than usual, at the houses and other areas from which, even 1 or 2 gunmen, could keep the squad pinned down.

Yeah... not inventing situations...

So unless you were there... and part of that unit... STFU...
You are trying to defend something that you know nothing except what Scarborough Country has spewed at your skull. And guess what? You drank it up without even questioning anything. Congrats... Jerry Falwell welcomes you to the fold.

Now... I've been following thing story since it broke and have not taken a stance one way or another. I still believe in "innocent until proven guilty"...
But sadly... for the miltary to cover up this information for nearly six months is self-destructive. Why bother hiding something for that long unless you seriously fucked up somewhere?

Oh, that's right... they didn't fuck up... the liberal media and Michael Moore lied. WTFever...
Tell that to the media that isn't based within the US... someone fucked up... and it wasn't the media this time... as shocking as that may seem.

And care to keep just posting up online news articles without any supporting evidence? You'll probably refute this post with something from another online media outlet. But that means nothing in here unless you are coming in here with an honest opinion on the subject matter and are trying to defend yourself with something else than a "but they said this" kind of defense.


EDIT: I did want to state this: unless you yourself have been in a situation like that... don't even begin to think that you know what is going through their minds.
I was in the Gulf War... I was stationed a few miles outside of the Iraqi border... and I'll tell you now.... the thought process was "shoot first, ask questions later"... not "hey, let's check this out" and die...

Jam it back in, in the dark.

perhaps/probably... I tend to avoid most of the news programs that are based within the US. I'm preferental to non-US based news programs... with the exception of Jon Sewart for his humour...

There's nowhere I can't reach.