Close. The word I was thinking of calling him starts the same way, but has a slightly different ending.
Doesn’t POS mean Positively Overbearing Sonofabitch?

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Curt, I do believe the POS is calling you a chickenhawk? The last line of defense for the fever swampers.

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Maybe you could have fun by going over there and showing everyone what a REAL American can do?

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I knew you were tin-hat lefty. Have fun with that.

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When following directions from Cheney about how to invade Iraq, obviously the expectation was of an easy campaign. Bush even announced the success of the war (a little early). The whole thing is a total mess and the morale of coalition forces is not exactly upbeat.
No surprises that the stress on these guys (who are following orders, remember) results in stuff like Haditha. Mind you, I get all this from watching the TV, so I guess I don’t have the insights that you obviously do.
Believing that the military is open, honest and impartial when judging its personnel is also a bit of a stretch (for me anyway, maybe I AM a lefty, bugger…)

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Before you make a bigger fool of yourself please go read the pdf I linked to and tell me which “eyewitnesses” are believable. The courts didn’t find any of them believable. Also, witnesses see whats going on in their general area. They do not know what precipitated their attack nor did they know that when Marines are attacked from a house they are to clear each room with grenades and then physically clear it.

They are not cops. Their rules of engagement are to destroy the enemy when attacked. They did that.

From the Investigating Officer:

LCpl Tatum shot and killed people in houses 1 and 2, but the reason he did so was because of his training and the circumstances he was placed in, not to exact revenge and commit murder.”

You obviously know very little about this case judging by your sweeping judgements. Click the category on my sidebar on the Haditha Marines and learn instead of listening to your lefty friends who want our soldiers to be babykillers so bad they can taste it. All so your kind can yell “My Lai!”, “the war is bad”, “Bush is evil”….blah blah blah.

Finally, the courts have deemed almost all of these Marines as innocent of these charges. There are only two left.

Still no apology from Murtha or your kind.

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So the possibility that some soldiers “lost it” and started firing on innocent civilians is impossible because these guys were doing what they were trained to do?

We can discount any eyewitness statements made by Iraquis because they can’t be trusted, right?

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Fuckin A man!!!

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The real insanity and stupidity in your comment is the fact that you obviously know nothing of the battle in Haditha but instead make blanket assumptions based on your DummiesU degree. Soldiers are human too, but this case was not a case of human fallibility. Instead it was a case of lefties such as yourself vilifying these soldiers for doing what they were trained to do. Fight back against an enemy that attacked them. It’s sad the enemy used civilians as shields but the blame for their deaths rest with the terrorists…not the Marines.

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The real insanity and stupidity in this thread seems to be the belief that training people to kill on command then sending them into civilian areas shouldn’t result in “tragedies” like Haditha.
The concept that American soldiers are somehow all super-patriotic and only doing their duty, are not corruptible or capable of firing in anger, is the really ridiculous thread.

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