Haditha Massacre Victims Outraged as U.S. Marines Go Free

Haditha Massacre Victims' Kin Outraged as U.S. Marines Go Free

A U.S. military judge last week dismissed charges against another Marine connected to the massacre of twenty-four unarmed Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha. Of the eight Marines originally charged in the case, only one still faces prosecution. Criminal charges have been dismissed against six of the Marines and a seventh Marine was acquitted. We speak with McClatchy's Baghdad bureau chief, Leila Fadel, who recently traveled to Haditha to interview survivors of the massacre.

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[UberTankred]

@MinisterAilingTongue last words of a sick, dying man. no friends leftinternationally and enemies to the left and right. when i'm 90 years old (we have health insurance) i'll be a sex tourist in the usa. by then it will be cheaper than thailand. :D

[MinisterAilingTongue]

@UberTankred "you could get hurt." Is that a threat? I don't give a fig for your feelings or opinions. The Iraqi insurgency throve on the complicity of civilians. But it was a particularly vicious and brutal insurgency--more a threat to peace and rights of Iraqis than American forces. I could (and did) read the paper and magazines any day late in 2006 or 2007 and heard about the inter-Iraqi murders, executions. You admire Michael Moore? I have contempt for krauts. Your country is OUR joke.

[UberTankred]

@MinisterAilingTongue your reasoning skills are as good as those of this stupid pervert wuterich. honestly, don't argue like that with someone who's standing in front of you and is not american. you could get hurt.

[pirateking193]

@MinisterAilingTongue I'm sorry but that doesn't explain why the soldiers just started randomly shooting. A true soldier would have tried to remain calm. Not easy but they just were like "oh let's shoot." They should have handled more discipline. Also, they may not have.

When war happens most soldiers don't just slaughter innocents for no reason

[obaidCarkey]

i will never forget haditha!

every time i see an american, i see wuterich the murderer!

[blueskdragonFX]

US of A. Land of the free.

3 gram of weed and you'll be rotting in jail for months between murderers. Killing 24 innocent civilians... no worries.

A more hypocrite country isn't existing.

[dallaskenn]

Have you pissed on a U.S. Marine today?

[vetlelg]

@CelestialEmbodiment Your questions are stupid. What's wrong with apes and zoo keepers existing simultanously?

The evidence is overwhelming. Evolution happens as we speak. It is happening all around us, and there is nobody who should ever question evolution itself. Evolution is a fact. However, what isn't a fact is that we relate to the apes. There are some missing links, but as i mentioned, the evidence to back the theory up is so overwhelmingly strong that it would be stupid to think otherwise

[vetlelg]

Basically, this is what happened:

A bomb goes off and a marine dies. They hear 2-3 shots somewhere in one direction. They find 5 civil men in a car just near the bombing, and kills all of them. Then they move towards the direction where they heard the shots, and assumes they came from some houses. They decide to attack the houses in that direction, which results in 24 innocent men, women and children gets killed. What the fuck?!!???!! What are they DOING?

[yotchsy]

DID WE FORGOT ABOUT 911?