The important thing here is to make sure you trust the media reports fully, and condem the soldiers off hand due to your personal political biases. The media would never run with half the facts of a story, nor would they have an agenda of their own. I can't imagine anyone on the left would try to exploit or distort such an incident.
The key is that we must demorailize the troops and demonize the effort in any way possible.
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Only now—two and a half months after the story broke in the March 19 issue of Time magazine— are the voices of soldiers who question the charges beginning to be heard.
Marine Captain James Kimber commanded Lima Company of the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment. The troops involved in the incident were from Kilo Company. He tells interviewers that he first learned about the shootings in February when he heard that a Time magazine reporter was asking questions about civilian deaths. Notably, Kimber says he heard nothing about a civilian massacre during weekly meetings with the Haditha City Council and talks with local leaders.
“It would have been huge, there would have been no question it would have filtered down to us,” he said. “We reported no significant atmospheric change as a result of that day.”
Kimber, who has been relieved of his command and is back in Camp Pendleton, CA says, “I believe I was a political casualty as a result of the Haditha incident.”
Some media accounts indicate that some of the dead were relatives of a Haditha City Council member. The May 12, 2006 edition of Iraq Reconstruction Update carries a photo and short article about Marine officers holding weekly meetings with the Haditha City Council with no mention of the alleged shooting controversy.
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http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story....6-0066e7629ace
Lies all lies!