{"id":23598,"date":"2004-08-31T06:25:25","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T10:25:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-04-28T12:34:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T16:34:57","slug":"sheriff_murtha_s_posse_removes_allegedly_convicts_haditha_marines_undermines_america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2004\/08\/31\/sheriff_murtha_s_posse_removes_allegedly_convicts_haditha_marines_undermines_america\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff Murtha\u2019s Posse Removes &#8220;Allegedly,&#8221; Convicts Haditha Marines &#038; Undermines America"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>Ladies and gentlemen, we are about to learn how the politicians who say they &#8220;support the troops&#8221; actually support them. This is about the incident at Haditha. The word &#8220;allegedly&#8221; has vanished from our language. Sheriff Murtha, Prosecutor Murtha, and Judge Murtha have declared the Marines at Haditha guilty. The media is preparing logos and themes: &#8220;Marine Massacre&#8221; all over television. &#8220;Is it a cover-up?&#8221; is the latest question they\u2019re asking. The spinners are testing focus groups. &#8220;What sounds worse: &#8216;Worse than Abu Ghraib,\u2019 or, &#8216;Worse than My Lai\u2019?&#8221; The LA Times already refers to this as &#8220;My Lai&#8221; in an editorial today. Let history note something, however. The <strong>alleged <\/strong>incident is under <strong>alleged <\/strong>investigation. The facts have yet to be checked. The <strong>alleged <\/strong>perps have yet to be identified. The <strong>alleged <\/strong>superior responsible has yet to be named. The <strong>alleged <\/strong>cover-up has yet to be established &#8212; and, of course, a defense has yet to be offered.A lot of people are very much concerned about this, but it\u2019s one of these circumstances where we don\u2019t know what happened. But because there are so many people who say they support the troops who want this to be true&#8230; It\u2019s typical of the Drive-By Media to report the news that you hope happens, report the news as you wish it to be. It\u2019s already a done deal, and they say &#8212; because they hate the US military, and they love military defeats. They love humiliation of the US military because they know and think it\u2019ll make it more difficult to use the military in the future. All the while, these are the people who claim to &#8220;support the troops, love the troops but don\u2019t support the mission.&#8221; These people want it to be true, and the people that want it to be true are the same kind of people that have no problem with totalitarian regimes and dictators and mass murderers the world over.<\/p>\n<p>The same kind of people who found it difficult to criticize Saddam or who will not criticize Castro or who want to coddle this wacko Hugo Chavez are eager to portray the US military as the focus of evil in the modern world. Remember this: if this turns out to be true, the reason we are shocked and will be shocked is because it is uncommon. It does not happen frequently. This is not what the US military is known for. They do not engage in &#8220;murder.&#8221; They engage in the killing of war. Michelle Malkin has a great piece on this today and says, &#8220;Despite every effort being made to castigate the entire US military today over an isolated incident about which we don\u2019t have the facts, keep in mind that this is the jihadists\u2019 way of life each and every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies and gentlemen, we are about to learn how the politicians who say they &#8220;support the troops&#8221; actually support them. This is about the incident at Haditha. The word &#8220;allegedly&#8221; has vanished from our language. Sheriff Murtha, Prosecutor Murtha, and Judge Murtha have declared the Marines at Haditha guilty. 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