From Newsmax

Commenting on Rep. John Murtha’s outrageous charges that the Marines of Kilo Company had committed cold-blooded murder of civilians in Haditha on November 19, 2005, McInerney said that the Pennsylvania Democrat’s declaration “has certainly prejudiced the case.”


General McInerney gets to the meat of the matter ….

McInerney said the real issue “is the way the information was [obtained] through information deception by terrorists and forwarded to Time Magazine. We cannot have terrorists using disinformation on our troops and our system and our military overreacting to it.”

“We need to give our people more latitude and not put handcuffs on them. This is despicable conduct by our leadership over there and I think that we’ve got to get with it and tell America what needs to be done.

“These poor guys [the Marine defendants] have been under a cloud for over a year and they still do not have an Article 32 hearing [to determine if a court martial is warranted] and that tells you something.

“I am very, very displeased with the Marine Corps on this issue.”

As reported previously by NewsMax.com, Haditha Accusations Unmasked, the Marine Corps has adopted highly restricted rules of engagement based on false information about the Haditha incident, a fact that disturbed Gen. McInerney.

And this is what just keeps grating at me …..

“Now every time they fire a weapon they have to fill out paper work,” he said. “When guys are being fired upon in combat the oversight is unbelievable. We cannot fight a war like that. We just cannot have such perfect, strict peacetime thinking in wartime rules of engagement. We’re not taking care of our people.”

This, he said “is one of the reasons why we have not had more decisive results [on the ground in Iraq].

McInerney is absolutely correct about this. THIS is why we have not had decisive results. Our troops are operating under rules of engagement more restrictive than a police force in any American city.

How can we, as the American people, stand by while our elected representatives send OUR sons and daughters to war without the means to fight the war. They have the equipment they need, but they aren’t allowed to use it.

The leftist media, the leftist celebrity elite and the socialist/communist of this country are destroying the will of our military and weakening the country.

The people of this country need to make our voices heard above the screeching of our enemies within. We do not want our country weakened and we do not want our Soldiers and Marines put in harms way without permission to fight the enemy.

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