John1234

I do not consider the phrase "in cold blood" to be "compassion".

Liberals repeatedly screw up by connecting our military to their position against the war.
And while the intent might be honorable, it sets them up to be portrayed as anti American and anti military.

This sentance that you posted, "Those who distort his words and the meaning of them are simply attempting to defend an indefensible war."

You are saying that those who support our military need to defend the war.
But what about those of us that support our military but are extremely against the war? Where do we fit in?

The whole business of showing the bad things our military does as a way of protesting the war is something that disturbs me greatly and is one of many reasons that I will never become a Democrat even though 90% of my views coincide with theirs.

Your focus should be on the criminal that sent our military there to begin with.
Not on our military.

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Panther

Yeah, and on 9/11, I'm sure you saw 19 brave misunderstood freedom fighters that were driven to extreme actions by the helplessness they felt having to deal with the USA's oppressive foreign policy.

Believe me, I know exactly what you want to "see" when you look at the situation. Fortunately, most Americans aren't so blindly spinning everything so that America-hating becomes acceptable, or cool.

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The silenced majority

Its hardly a Marine defending the Marine Corps when a political hack dredges up an isolated incident, applies his negative spin on what had transpired, and then tried to present it as emblematic of what all Marines are doing/facing in Iraq.


I'm real sure Murtha was keeping his fingers crossed that these Marines would be found not guilty.

ADK_Forever

You don't have a clue what honorably serving military people think about "honor". All you care about is winning an argument using only rhetoric ignoring all facts. When the facts are shoved in your face you, and your other neo-con buddies, resort to ridiculous fact twisting and name calling, as if that helps your position at all. You don't even see how desperate it makes ya'll look.

One by one we are witnessing you and your neo-con buddies retreating from arguments when the facts are laid on the table. None of you can get past the surface emotion of an issue. It is a waste of time to even try to get thru to you intellectually.

Now you can go ahead and win the argument by calling me a jerk.

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ADK_Forever

The fact that you would characterize this as an "isolated incident", as if that carries any importance, shows what your priorities look like.

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Simon W. Moon

He did?

He said that his cold blood comment applied to all Marines in Iraq?
He said that all Marines in Iraq had killed these civilians in cold blood?
Where did you find this out?

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Panther

The fact that you consider Murtha's actions as honorable and brave makes your comment laughable. I really don't care what the minuscule number of military men and women that would fall under your definition of "honorably serving" think about honor. They are not the ones that anyone should be listening to - and most aren't.


There's no argument to win, we have diametrically opposed viewpoints and you made it very clear on which side you stand. People can make their own determination whether or not siding with a moron like Murtha makes you a jerk.

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The silenced majority

You know Simon your BS nitpicking of semantics is almost as troubling as a so-called conservative stalwartly defending leftists as you do quite frequently on this board.

To me, this would indicate a belief that all troops would act this way: killing innocents in cold blood (which didn't happen) because of the situation they are facing.

In other words, the situation is so troublesome in Iraq that it would cause our troops to become cold-blooded killers - which of course never happened.

Again, this is just a case of a political hack dredges up an isolated incident, applies his negative spin on what had transpired, and then tried to present it as emblematic of what all Marines are doing/facing in Iraq.

Simon W. Moon

You say "semantics." I say factually incorrect.
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toe mah toe

Don't let meanings stand in the way of using whatever words you want to use. Why bother right?
It's all words isn't it? The difference between words is just semantics, right?

Some people aren't discerning enough to be able to distinguish between "stalwartly defending leftists" and recognizing poor arguments.
FWIW, your White House is "leftist"

Given your creative approach to language I am not surprised that you think this means that.

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Reverend_Hellh0und

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Former Marine sues Rep. John Murtha over Haditha comments. Yes! Republican Party of Jefferson County, TN

Lance Corporal Justin Sharratt



The honorable thing to do is apologize for your false accusations.




Uhm you chimed in that these troops were murderers.


Why are you deflecting now?

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