Originally Posted by SomeMarine

Exactly, YOU have dismissed them as whitewash because it doesn't fit your personal belief, a belief that is not founded on personal experience, but garnered through inaccurate reports in the media, slanders cast by members of Congress, and outright lies by the insurgents.

YOU have never been there to see how the insurgents operate. YOU do not know that it is their mode of operation to fire from crowds of women and children, or choose to ignore the fact.

YOU do not know that their mode of operation is to trap families in their houses and then draw American forces in hoping the innocents get killed, or you choose to ignore this fact.

YOU do not know that they set up multiple stage co-ordinated ambushes, in populated areas, with someone holding a video camera, so that when we return fire, if someone in the crowd they INTENTIONALLY place themselves in gets hit, they can cry about American atrocities to the media, or, you choose to ignore that fact.

You DO however, bash us for their actions.

Yeah, we have, unfortunatly, killed innocents. Yes, there have no doubt been murders committed. There is no moralizing these things. They are bad, and I, and every Marine I know, wish they have not happened. However, we prosecute and jail those who commit these acts, when they are committed outside of what is established as lawfull.