Haditha Questions

If we have learned anything from Memogate, Katrina or coal mine disasters, its that we must be skeptical of early reporting. Especially reporting from a war (or war like) zone. Especially if the reporter may have a political axe to grind.

I don't know what is going on with the Haditha investigation. It very well may be a group a marines went out of control and committed a war crime. But we have seen examples of manufactured cases against American and British soldiers that fell apart under evidentiary examination.

In that vain take a look at this narrative from the American Thinker.

UPDATE: Today's Washington Post carries a first hand account of one of the Marines involved in the incident. In his version of events an IED killed a member of the patrol. The patrol then took fire from houses in the area. What followed was an aggressive search an destroy mission to eliminate the insurgents which were firing on them. While the account does raise questions about what the proper rules of engagement in such a situation should be, its quite different from what Democrat Majority Leader Hopeful Jack "we can never win" Murtha has been saying.