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Subject: Seventh Haditha Marine cleared
PowerPointRanger    6/17/2008 11:34:21 PM
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The charges against Lt. Col. Chessani were dismissed. He is the seventh of the eight Marines charged in the so-called "Haditha Massacre". It appears the ruling was on grounds of command influence. This is to say that people of high rank abused their authority to manipulate the outcome of the court matrial against the accused. In short, the fairness of the investigation was suspect.

While the ruling might be appealed and the charges might be refiled, it is hard to imagine a prosecution that would continue a case that was so tainted.
 
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PlatypusMaximus       6/18/2008 8:16:44 AM
"It began with the invasion of Iraq. That's when terrorism started."

"It [Haditha], is as bad as Abu Ghraib, if not worse."

They [Marines] knew the day after this happened that it was not as they portrayed it. They knew that they went into the rooms, they killed the people in the taxi. There was no firing at all. And this comes from the highest authority in the Marine Corps, so there's no question in my mind... they [Marines] killed innocent civilians in cold blood."

"They actually went into the houses and killed women and children."

"It's [Haditha] much worse than reported in Time magazine."

"Wolf, you read the "Time" magazine articles. There are pictures, there are photos. You don't have to talk to the military about the proof."

---John Murtha


Bush could have stopped this a long time ago...We lost some great men.


 
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DarthAmerica       6/18/2008 10:11:40 PM
The military justice system needs a serious overhaul. So does the process by which things enter into that system.


-DA
 
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