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[The Left Coaster] Murtha Says Haditha Worse Than Abu Ghraib: Murtha said high-level reports he received indicated that no one fired upon the Marines or that there was any military action against the U.S. forces after the initial explosion. Yet the deaths were not seriously investigated until March because an early probe was stifled within days of the incident, he said.
[Lafayette Democrats] Massacre of civilians at Haditha worse than Abu... : The shootings last November at Haditha, a city in the Anbar province of western Iraq that has been plagued by insurgents, were covered up, said Rep. John Murtha”¦"Who covered it up, why did they cover it up, why did they wait so long?" Murtha said on "This Week" on ABC.
[SaintperleSaintperle] They seem to always leave out the most important... : They're at it again -- trying to diss Rep Murtha, pretend he's not nearly the patriot Monkey Boy with his almost-completed National Guard service was -- trying to make him out as someone with contempt for Marines, like the one he was until he got essential parts blown off... check it out --
[CorrenteWire | Ecrasez l'infame!] Unstories from the Sunday papers: Now that I’m fully caffeinated, let’s read the papers. As usual, we’ve got to do the ol’ “through a glass darkly” routine, because most of the interesting stories just aren’t in the papers.
[Floppingaces.net] Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » The Dishonorable Murtha: While John Murtha is calling for an immediate withdrawal from the war against terror, Diana Irey has been standing steadfastly by our fighting men and women and is committed to finishing the job. And while John Murtha is voting to tax our social security benefits, Diana Irey has been holding the line on taxes and government spending.
[Dailywarnews.blogspot.com] Today in Iraq: The study also notes that Defense Department expenditures that were not directly appropriated for Iraq have grown by more than 5 percent since the war began. But a portion of that increase has been spent "on support for the war in Iraq, including significantly higher recruitment costs, such as nearly doubling the number of recruiters, paying recruitment bonuses of up to $40,000 for new enlistees and paying special bonuses and other benefits, up to $150,000 for current Special Forces troops that re-enlist." "Another cost to the government," the study says, "is the interest on the money that it has borrowed to finance the war." Among the things taken into account by the study are some of the difficult-to-quantify but very real costs inflicted by the war on the American economy and society, such as the effect of the war on oil prices, and the economic loss that results from the many thousands of Americans wounded and killed in the war.
[Empirenotes.org] Empire Notes: I'm currently teaching a course on political journalism at New York University and one of the big parts of the class is a class blog, to which I will be posting once a week (as will my students. For those who are interested, I just put up a post about Shibley Telhami's op-ed in the Washington Post regarding democracy, Islam, and the Middle East.Posted at 4:42 pm
[Gnn.tv] Murtha: Marines killed civilians: Asked about his sources during a midday briefing on Iraq policy in the Capitol, Murtha confidently replied, “All the information I get, it comes from the commanders, it comes from people who know what they are talking about.” Although Murtha said that he had not read any investigative reports by the military on the incident, he stressed, “It’s much worse than reported in Time magazine.”
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