Honora,
if the Marines committed atrocities then they will be held accountable. They are already held accountable to an almost impossible standard, considering what they have to put up with both abroad and home, and the facts that the terrorist (or insurgants) are not held accountable to any standard.
I would like to see the Soldiers Innocent until proven guilty. Not crucified in the media day after day.

Bataan death march, Malmedy, Hanoi Hilton……..We rightly condemn these actions. We have the moral authority to condemn them because we attempt to identify and punish atrocities our side commits. If it didn’t happen, who is spreading this garbage? They need to be held accountable. If it did happen, weed them out and hang them high.

Any Marine knows that honor doesn’t come cheap–knowing the right thing to do is easy, doing it is hard.

Actually, that’s what he did say when he started it, easy87us. The prognosis for the GWOT was a long war sometimes ebbing, sometimes flowing, sometimes visible, sometimes not, but always going forward. I don’t think that I’ve ever heard him say that we’ve reached a point where we can see the shape that the end will take.

As to your last point, the Marine Corps, during WWII, would nutralize organized opposition and move on leaving the mop up for the garrison forces. It sped things up considerably.

We name the top five MSM heavy-breathers over at Hot Air. The NY Slimes earned the Number 3 spot (thanks to Sanctuary for the photoshop):……

The myth of Bush sending to few troops will not stand up in history!

The war is won fair and square. A new democratically elected government is formed. The troops have performed superbly in this war but the liberal still say “the war is still going on!”

The war of Iraq has been fought and won long , long time ago. it is the beginning of the war in global terrorism. How can the liberals be so stupid to trap themself into an arguement that won’t stand upto the test of history? They keep on confusing between the war on global terrorism and the war in Iraq?

Insurgents planting IEDs here and there and exploded them for the MSM to make news is not a valid proof whether we have sufficient troops or not. The results are. With the forming of the new Iraqi government and 200000 Iraqis trained to start taking over the security of their own country, I would say that we have accomplished our mission with sufficient troops. No one can argue with success.

Come on, dude, accept the reality. the war in Iraq has been over long time ago. In fact, when Bush said the mission is over he should have emphasized that the war in Iraq is over, but the war on globalterrorism has just begun.

If the liberal insisted on the logic that the war is won only after all insurgents have been terminated, then I think they are stuck on stupid. There are still Nazi thugs in Germany and we still have troops in that country. Is WWII over yet? Well, based on liberals’ logic, WWI is not over until every Nazis thug( who still beating up Jews in Germany) is terminated.

Silly liberals.

Welcome to the Dawn Patrol, our daily roundup of information on the War on Terror and other topics – from the MilBlogs, other blogs, and the mainstream media. If you’re a blogger, you can join the conversation. If you link……

TO Doug: Don’t flatter yourself. You would “make my week” if you visited a library to get your facts straight before posting opinion masquerading as information. If you did, you would realize that the military “calls the shots” ONLY when the President allows it to — because (BULLETIN!) the President is the Commander-in-Chief of the military. As in, “He is the boss!” As in, “You are fired for disobeying.”

If you actually believe that generals run things, I suggest you pick up a book, visit a library or Google “Truman vs. MacArthur” and read who won that little debate (HINT: The civilian PRESIDENT).

You called my blog “idiotic and wrong” but it seems your knowledge of history, protocol and how government ACTUALLY works is nil. So I’ll say it again for those who fell into your trap: The PRESIDENT is the boss! In the end, the PRESIDENT runs the military. And any general who thinks otherwise goes to the head of the unemployment line without passing “GO!”

This is not a question of “making sense”; it is a question of fact.

The events and issues in this country today are bigger than we, as a country of mere men, can solve. Open our eyes as individuals and as a country, to see your truth clearly — to see your perspective. Wake us up as people to speak the truth in our democracy, so that our country speaks and does your will. Help us put Godless thinking to rest with reason, to be courageous and strong and direct with Your truths. Help us make peace and find unity in accordance with your will. Help us fight just wars with your strength, conviction, and effectiveness when it is in line with your will. Let the voice of Your Truth prevail above all else in this land.

Amen

Fair and balanced.

Cox and Forkum weigh in on the Haditha smear campaign. Meanwhile, the Blame Bush-Fire Rumsfeld drumbeat rolls on. Steyn says it all: For three years, coalition forces in Iraq behaved so well that a salivating Vietnam culture had to make……

And it’s gaining speed fast. Just check out today’s editorial on Haditha in The New York Times: This is the nightmare that everyone worried about when the Iraq invasion took place. Critics of the war predicted that American troops would……

Don Surber shreds it here. Allah’s impressed too. If you get far enough ahead of the news cycle maybe someone will follow…

Of course, these are the same people who believe with the same sobriety that all violent crimes deserve a “serious inquiry” of better-off people and society as a whole, and not a “deflection of blame” to the lowest felons on the scene.

The balance of atrocities has been, and will always be tilted towards the insurgents. Period.

Kadnine on June 4, 2006 at 7:56 PM

Thank you,much, for your service to a country which I sometimes—feel doesn’t deserve you.But Im sure glad you’re there.

For seven months in 2003, I was in Iraq as a Marine and I will state unequivocally for the record. NO SUCH “MESSAGE” WAS ISSUED. Quite the opposite, in fact. Rent 21 Days to Baghdad, CNN’s (hastily produced, but mostly accurate) documentary of the initial invasion. Pay special attention to the chapter entitled, “They’re not playing by the rules” which highlights the very real consternation we felt when insurgents took to hijacking ambulances for bombing runs and hid in civilian clothing, contrary to international law of land warfare. But as as it offended our professional sensibilities, we responded by upping our own standards, not lowering ourselves to their level.

The balance of atrocities has been, and will always be tilted towards the insurgents. Period.

Sometimes it causes me anguish to even see the ‘News’ and know all the things they aren’t saying.

I would scream… but I have a blog so I do that.

But urinating into the wind to 300 readers can sometimes be… exhausting.

So I come to Hot Air and read Allah Pundit, turn up the air conditioning to cool my temper…

…and feel a lot better.

Thanks guy…

George Bush may be Commander-in-Chief, but his propensity to be politically correct makes him a very poor commander.

Think about how World War II might have turned out had Truman concerned himself with politics instead of doing what had to be done.