{"id":485,"date":"2007-07-11T14:38:19","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T18:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/11\/485\/"},"modified":"2007-09-21T08:23:57","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T12:23:57","slug":"485","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=485","title":{"rendered":"More Haditha good news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry that I’m so far behind that I missed the greatest news today. According to Chickenhawk Express<\/a>, the prosecutor has recommended that charges against LCpl Sharrat be dropped in the Horrible Haditha investigation;<\/p>\n

The Chickenhawk is doing the happy dance today – this is just great news<\/font><\/a> and should be trumpeted from the rooftops…<\/p>\n

An investigating officer has recommended dismissing murder charges against a Marine accused in the slayings of three Iraqi men in a squad action that killed 24 civilians in Haditha, according to a report released Tuesday. The government’s theory that Lance Cpl. Justin L. Sharratt had executed the three men was “incredible” and relied on contradictory statements by Iraqis, Lt. Col. Paul Ware said in the report, released by Sharratt’s defense attorneys.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She has much more read it all – in fact, Chickenhawk Express is my daily destination for Haditha news. Of course when I started reading the Chickenhawk Express post, the first thing I thought was to call John Murtha’s office for about 900th time this month to find out when he’ll be issuing his apology. But California Conservative<\/a> had already done it;<\/p>\n

I asked the woman that answered the phone \u00e2\u20ac\u0153if Congressman Murtha had a statement following a news story regarding Lt. Col. Paul Ware\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s report stating that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s theory that Lance Cpl. Justin L. Sharratt<\/strong><\/a> had executed the three men was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153incredible\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and relied on contradictory statements by Iraqis.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Instead of answering that question, she asked \u00e2\u20ac\u0153So the trial is over?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I told her that it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, that the recommendation<\/strong> was nonbinding. Then she asked \u00e2\u20ac\u0153So it isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t over?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I confirmed that it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. I asked if Congressman Murtha would \u00e2\u20ac\u0153like to make a statement considering his accusations made over a year ago on \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThis Week With George Stephanopoulos\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d? Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s her response: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Congressman Murtha doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a statement because the investigation is still ongoing.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pretty much the same answer I’ve been getting<\/a>. But, of course, Murtha is just using this for cover. His original statement, and most of the statements before and since, have been to \u00c2\u00a0endear himself to the anti-war crowd in Congress and to get himself some cover because of his morally questionable extra-governmental dealings for which he’s famous – things I’ve catalogued here<\/a>. He knows that Democrats don’t throw their more criminal members to the wolves when they toe the party line. Remember how quickly James Trafficant<\/a> went down because of his repeated criticism of his Democrat Party members? So does Murtha know that the reverse is just as true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sorry that I’m so far behind that I missed the greatest news today. According to Chickenhawk … More Haditha good news<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,22,5,13,18,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-john-murtha","category-politics","category-society","category-support-the-troops","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}