Comments on: NYT Editors: Bush Complicit in Alleged Haditha Murders

By: CStudent

CStudent — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 22:44:03 +0000

I’m just impressed that you managed to work “frisson” into a post

By: Dana

Dana — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 17:41:59 +0000

The ADA asks:

(I)sn’t the commander in chief responsible for anything that happens on his watch anymore?

Yes, he is. But there is a difference between being responsible, as in the buck stops here, and being to blame for things he didn’t specifically do or order.

By: assistant devil's advocate

assistant devil's advocate — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 16:32:28 +0000

isn’t the commander in chief responsible for anything that happens on his watch anymore?

By: JVW

JVW — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 04:44:51 +0000

Hey Patterico, I just hope that you read the NY Times online and do not subscribe to the print edition. I had the Sunday edition delivered for probably 8 or 9 years, and I can’t tell you how much better I felt when I cancelled it. Reading it is bad enough, but knowing that your money is supporting their lefty elitist claptrap can drive you crazy.

Now the trick will be to wean yourself from the online version.

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 03:49:11 +0000

I wonder how long it will take before Kerry starts reminiscing about “free-fire zones?”

I can hear him now: “Bush has turned Iraq into a free-fire zone, reminiscent of Christmas in Cambodia and the Vietnam War! How long will it be before American troops start cutting off ears, taping wires to genitals and turning up the power, raping, pillaging, and burning, similar to what I did in Vietnam. Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam! Did I tell you I was a war criminal in Vietnam?”

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 03:38:04 +0000

“Haditha-think will infect most of our soldiers and Marines”

Are you saying that most of our military will start executing people, just like the terrorists do? Tell me that isn’t what you think!

BTW Dana, what do we do about the terrorists? Do we tell them to go home and stop executing people too?

Bringing the troops home will not solve anything and will abandon the Iraqi’s to another Taliban in the middle east. I don’t think that’s a viable solution.

By: Darleen

Darleen — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 03:01:05 +0000

The NYTimes blames GW for Haditha (and can’t you just hear their excitement in anticipating it being true)

well, why not?

Reading WaPo this morning I discover GW is to blame for forcing a woman to have an abortion.

GW is nothing if not a very busy bee.

By: Patterico

Patterico — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 01:48:54 +0000

I always say “if.”

By: kate

kate — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 01:30:41 +0000

From reading this blog and the comments, I sense strong consensus that there was an execution type slaying of civilians.

When reading Saturday’s or Friday’s WAPO my sense is that the evidence is not all that strong.

Any chance the soldiers perceived fire coming from this building and there was a firefight or has the evidence ruled that out.

Guess the defense isn’t talking yet.

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Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Blaming Bush For Haditha — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 22:31:50 +0000

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