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In the past I've gone at it with a certain individual(s) on this site concerning labeling our military as indiscriminate killers in Iraq. Another thread cited a Russian KGB agent as stating that such misleading statements was part and parcel of an effort to undermine every US President since Truman. I see we have one more example of it and yet some still seem to side with enemy over their own individual countrymen.

" In exonerating Lance Cpl. Justin Sharratt of all charges against him arising out of the incident in Haditha in November 2005 including murder, Lt. Gen. James Mattis praised the young Marine who is among the Marines who were accused of cold-blooded murder by Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa.

As correspondent Nat Helms has written, Murtha publicly labeled the Marines cold-blooded murderers and liars who covered up the crime to protect their skins last year. He repeatedly told reporters interviewing him on CNN and other news outlets that he obtained his evidence from the Time magazine stories, which he failed to explain were based on statements by two known insurgent propagandists.

After agreeing with the Investigating Officer's recommendation that all charges against Sharratt, a veteran of the bloody battle of Fallujah in 2004 and the insurgent ambush in Haditha on Nov. 19, 2005, Mattis assured Sharratt that he could reflect with satisfaction over his service in Iraq. "

And finally I hope Murtha and the others some day have to stand up for the unbelievably callous and yes traiterous way they have portrayed our military.