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One post, three things to ponder

It appears one of the Marines who had been charged in the Haditha case will be cleared of at the very least the murder charges.

It is my hope that the others will also be found to be innocent of cold blooded murder.

It has always been my contention that if any soldier intentionally kills, they should be treated as any civilian would be, but this case was clearly in many aspects a “rush to judgment” and a thirst by the MSM (and Congressman Murtha) to condemn these Marines. I wonder if there will be any apologies forthcoming to LCpl Sharratt.

Also, Michael Yon has posted another dispatch from Iraq. Seems we must be doing something right.

Al-Qaeda on the Run: Feasting on the Moveable Beast

While we were driving in the belly of the Stryker into Buhriz, I asked Abu Ali, “What did you do to al Qaeda?”

Abu Ali said that on 1 April 2007, he and his people attacked al Qaeda in Buhriz for their crimes against Islam. He also said something that many Muslims have said to me: al Qaeda are not Muslims. (Both Sunni and Shia have said nearly the exact same words, at times on video.) Abu Ali said they fought hard against al Qaeda, and on 10 April, they asked the Americans to join the attack. It worked.

Sounds like we must be winning at least some hearts and minds.

And
Courtesy of Jack Army I discovered this link to the Global Incident Map. In looking over the information provided, there are events which I clearly remember reading about and others which I checked out by reading the copy provided when clicking on the incident itself. Just a little something different for those who have never seen anything quite like this.

Written by Sue

One Response to “One post, three things to ponder”

  1. ~J~ Says:

    July 11th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
    Visit ~J~

    Not all readers will go to all the blogs you reference, but most at least scan the comments, so I want to put up a quote from Michael Yon that I think is important for people to read:

    The focus on al Qaeda makes sense here, where local officials have gone on record acknowledging that most of the perhaps one thousand al Qaeda fighters in Baqubah were young men and boys who called the city home. This may clash with the perception in US and other media that only a small percentage of the enemy in Iraq is al Qaeda, which in turn leads to false conclusions that the massive offensive campaign underway across Iraq is a lot of shock and awe aimed at a straw enemy. But as more Sunni tribal leaders renounce former ties with al Qaeda, it’s becoming clearer just how heavily AQ relied on local talent, and how disruptive they have been here in fomenting the civil war.

    Al Qaeda’s recruiting efforts in Baqubah were not much different than what they used in Mosul as 2004 changed into 2005 and Iraq’s first elections loomed. (I was in Baqubah at that time.) I wrote about how thugs and gangs and fugitive fundamentalists on the run from Fallujah flooded into Mosul and murdered people by the hundreds. Al Qaeda had excellent publicity and media teams and a sales pitch that worked effectively for a long time. But the reason for Zawahiri’s recent desperate recruiting drive is the fact that AQ values in action have turned local people against them. We are not always fighting AQ on the battlefield because they can be so difficult to find, but month by month, year by year, we can destroy them on the moral battlefield; they are savages and most people can see it.

    Over here, the fact of al Qaeda murdering children is just that: it’s a fact.