Eric Florack on June 5th, 2008

Here’s a headline you won’t see much of, today:

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.  —AP- A military jury acquitted a Marine intelligence officer Wednesday of charges that he tried to help cover up the killings of 24 Iraqis.

Cheers erupted as the

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It must be a bear being part of the mainstream media these days.  Must also be a major problem for liberals, but then again that’s kind of a repetition, isn’t it?

The Gateway Pundit is running a brilliant piece today

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Eric Florack on October 5th, 2007

CAMP PENDLETON -NC TIMES- A Marine Corps official has recommended that murder charges be dismissed against a Camp Pendleton squad leader accused in the deaths of 17 civilians killed in the Iraqi city of Haditha two years ago.

Attention John

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Eric Florack on September 7th, 2007

Phil Brennen at News Max:

A video taped from a Scan Eagle unmanned aerial vehicle purported to show the action that took place in Haditha when 24 Iraqi civilians and insurgents were killed was heavily edited by government investigators, a

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Eric Florack on August 10th, 2007

Upon being asked, during a phone interview, for a comment on the vindication of the Marines at Haditha that John Murtha slandered, his staff responded:

Click.

We’re still waiting for you to apologize, Mr. Murtha. You already have no credibility. 

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  • I see where Ron Paul is being excluded from the Iowa boredom festival. I don’t know.  Perhaps they figure they didn’t need the comedy relief. Look, let’s call this what it is, OK? Ron Paul is to sanity, what a

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davidl on April 26th, 2007

On May 17, 2006, Jim Miklaszewski and Mike Viqueira, NBC News reported on an alleged massacre in Haditha, and said the story was confirmed by John Murtha:

Military officials told NBC News that the Marine Corps’ own evidence appears to

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davidl on February 8th, 2010

The reprobate and former Marine, John Murtha,  has assumed room temperature, Associated Press:

Murtha’s criticism of the Iraq war intensified in 2006, when he accused Marines of murdering Iraqi civilians “in cold blood” at Haditha, Iraq, after one Marine

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Eric Florack on September 26th, 2008

Welcome, dear reader, to the most intense nightly read on the ‘sphere: Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble.

Lots going on.

  • So, Ol’ Gaffe-O-Matic Biden and, one assumes, B. O. both think John McCain is wrong on security? Is that why they both

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Eric Florack on August 24th, 2008

In digging into Joe Biden, Barack Obama’s chosen VP, I have found some rather interesting history.

About two years ago, now, (June, 2006) Joe Biden did a  Meet The Press. On that program, Biden said the following: (As quoted by

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Eric Florack on August 5th, 2008

I note this morning an article in the American Thinker by Thomas Lifson, that points to a subject I’ve been thinking about rather a lot of late… All around Slimeball John Murtha:

Rep. John Murtha’s disgrace in denouncing the Marines

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Eric Florack on March 30th, 2008

Michelle notes that the charges against Lance Cpl Stephen Tatum have been dropped.

By the Marines… not by Democrat Jack Murtha, who accused the Marines of murdering people in cold blood.

Where’s Jack Murtha now?

Certainly, he is not where

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Eric Florack on December 31st, 2007

Here’s a few posts from BitsBlog that caught my eye and my immediate memory, as I scanned over the posts from the last year.

Harry Reid,man of the land…. deal.
Barbara Boxer back in CAIR’s good graces
Joe Biden: Barack

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Eric Florack on November 28th, 2007

Gateway Pundit:

Reportedly, on Sunday 11 close family members of Jordanian-based Baathist reporter Dia al-Kawwaz, who runs the online anti-Iraq newspaper Shabeqat Akhbar al-Iraq, were slaughtered in Baghdad. The attack occurred in the Al-Shaab neighborhood shortly after

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Eric Florack on November 13th, 2007

Betsy Newmark, yesterday:

Mackubin Thomas Owens had a great column yesterday in honor of Veterans Day. He noted the proclivity of those in the media to treat those in the military as either victims or monsters. He notes that since

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