IRAQ: Haditha case attorneys feel case may be dropped
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 16 Jun 2008 06:49 PM EDT
Chessani is charged with dereliction of duty and failure to follow a direct order. While he did report the basic facts of the killings to his bosses within hours, prosecutors say he should have been more aggressive in finding out why a squad of Marines in his battalion killed 24 Iraqis after a roadside bomb had killed a Marine.
Chessani was not at the scene of the killings. He has said that from the reports he received, it appeared the killings, while tragic, were the result of "troops in contact" with the enemy and thus no further investigation was needed
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LA Times: Bush Never Lied To Us About Iraq
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 16 Jun 2008 06:28 PM EDT
Nearly every prominent Democrat in the country has repeated some version of this charge, and the notion that the Bush administration deceived the American people has become the accepted narrative of how we went to war.
Yet in spite of all the accusations of White House "manipulation" -- that it pressured intelligence analysts into connecting Hussein and Al Qaeda and concocted evidence about weapons of mass destruction -- administration critics continually demonstrate an inability to distinguish making claims based on flawed intelligence from knowingly propagating falsehoods.
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Lotus vs. Apache
by
Riley Jones
on Mon 16 Jun 2008 10:39 AM EDT
