A senior military investigator's recommendation to drop murder charges against U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Frank D. Wuterich, accused of killing of 24 Iraqis in Haditha in 2005, has been greeted rather mournfully by the New York Times.
BAGHDAD, Oct. 5 — Last year, when accounts of the killing of 24 Iraqis in Haditha by a group of marines came to light, it seemed that the Iraq war had produced its defining atrocity, just as the conflict in Vietnam had spawned the My Lai massacre a generation ago.
But on Thursday, a senior military investigator recommended dropping murder charges against the ranking enlisted marine accused in the 2005 killings, just as he had done earlier in the cases of two other marines charged in the case. The recommendation may well have ended prosecutors’ chances of winning any murder convictions in the killings of the apparently unarmed men, women and children.
Gateway Pundit marvels that the 'defining atrocity' has to be an American atrocity.
And, isn't it interesting how The New York Times is still searching for an atrocity to define the War in Iraq?
An Al-Qaeda atrocity like the Yazidi bombings, the murder of a brave young Sunni Sheik, torture chamber drawings, or dismembering and booby-trapping dead soldier's bodies just won't do.
It must be an American atrocity.
Sometimes it's hard to figure out just who they are rooting for.
Sorry GP. Not that hard.
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