Wasting Time With Alex

Another MSM/Loony lib lie against our military falling apart

I can not say I am surprised that the MSM has not been covering the Haditha massacre investigation these days. When it first came to light it got 24/7 coverage because American Marines had been accused of committing an atrocity and bad press for the US & the military fit in with the MSM’s anti-US/anti-war agenda. But to many it was obvious that this looked too much like the claims of a massacre in Jenin which turned out to be false, an elaborate campaign of lies concocted by terrorists & a complacent and complicit media, and it looks like that is the Haditha massacre is the same:

July 16, 2007: Yet another Marine has won a court victory in the investigation of the battle at Haditha – adding more doubts to the claims of a massacre. In this case, the officer conducting an Article 32 hearing (equivalent to a grand jury hearing in civilian courts) has ruled that charges should be dropped. In essence, the claims of a massacre at Haditha are now looking false. That said, al Qaeda, through some adept media manipulation, has still won a victory.

It all began in 2005, when the ambush of Marines led to a battle in which eight terrorists and a number of civilians were killed. That said, the aftermath of the incident was mishandled, giving a reporter and a human-rights group enough room to make claims of a massacre. The initial Haditha investigations uncovered some apparent discrepancies in the Marines’ stories, and a criminal investigation by NCIS was launched. NCIS filed criminal charges, and internal investigations showed that officers failed to ask the right questions. It was, in essence, a more refined version of the Palestinian claims after the battle of Jenin in 2002, in which 52 people, a majority of them combatants, were killed.

Al Qaeda faced the same problem that the Palestinian terrorists at Jenin faced in 2002. They have been unable to win in a straight fight with troops that are highly trained and motivated – and American and Israeli troops tend to be among the best in the world on a soldier-for-soldier basis. The terrorists needed to try a different approach. What they came up with was media manipulation, where lies and deceptions would make the Americans (or Israelis, as the case could be) look bad while winning. Sometimes, this involves exacting a high price on the attacking force in terms of casualties, but this is difficult. More often, it involves creating the impression that the American or Israeli troops are indiscriminate killers who routinely slaughter civilians. This would boost both recruiting (to avenge a massacre by the Americans/Israelis) and it would also get media play, undercutting the American war effort (by giving opponents of the global war on terror ammunition).

In the case of Haditha, the terrorists’ media strategy worked and caused a lot of problems. An anti-war congressman claimed that a cover-up of cold-blooded murder by the Marines occurred. There was a controversy that has gone on for a number of months. And al Qaeda will come away with articles about massacres that never happened. It is a partial media victory for the terrorists – mostly because the lies have been somewhat unraveled, but the truth will not get the same airplay as the false claims.

So yeah the terrorists, the anti-war/anti-US/anti-military types got to claim victory and garnered support for their movements, but then again the truth is coming out and they are all being exposed. Don’t hold your breath for either an apology from scum like Murtha - the congressman mentioned above - or his fellow anti war democrats. And do not expect any kind of apology or serious coverage from the MSM because they only give front page spalsh to stuff that furthers their agenda and that of their side kicks the democrats. The damage is done, but there is a real silver lining in all of this, and that is the fact that the next bunch of idiots that claim there is another massacre by our troops will now have to face the fact they were wrong every time before - including Haditha - and that will make it a lot harder for them to sell their lies.