Another Marine charged with killing innocent civilians in Iraq has had the charges against him dropped. Let the show trials that were set up after Abu Ghraib end and the apologies to eight Marines begin.
Friday's development in the Haditha case — the dismissal of charges related to the deaths of innocent civilians in that Iraqi town in 2005 against Marine Lance Cpl. Stephen Tatum — makes it five of the eight Marines charged in those deaths who have had all charges dropped.
With the evidence against the Haditha Marines so flimsy and exculpatory evidence so abundant, the question is why charges were ever brought.
"The hysteria and firestorm over Abu Ghraib and the Pat Tillman investigations led to fear of a similar media reaction to the Haditha incident, causing the military's civilian bosses to set up this shadow oversight body,"The anti-war left wingers thought they had their Iraqi My Lai, and the Defense Department wanted to give it to them...
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