Will Murtha Apologize?

[lovett]

Had had no reason to believe what he said. He had not even been briefed by the military yet when he called it 'cold-blooded murder'.

One does not go saying the sort of crap he did based on 'insider rumors' and he damn well knows that. But he did it anyway. That's why it is malicious and self-serving.

I don't know enough about the bloke to make a judgement either way. But it appears that he's a pretty fanatical anti-war type. As such, he probably made up his mind about the issue a good time before Haditha. He may well have already decided that US marines were doing lots of unsavoury things in Iraq.
So, in the long tradition of selection bias, he seems something that supports his position and jumps on it. He doesn't critically examine it because he's already convinced about the issue at stake. The result being that he listens to sources which support his own opinion, ignores ones that don't and publicises the former. The result being that he may well have sincerely believed what he was saying, and thus is guilty of gross negligence and incompetence as opposed to simple malicious lieing.

 

[bjam]

Yea, I joined Aug 6 and had to wait till December
On topic, do you think Murtha was disrespectful and wrong to do what he did?

Of course he was disrespectful and wrong and he should apologize. However, that doesn't mean that there should be a trial or that he's a traitor. It just means that he lives in a FREE country with FREE SPEECH. Nobody should never be threatened to face a court only for expressing his point of view, no matter how stupid it is. Besides, I don't care about what this guy has told about the soldiers being guilty for one reason: only a judge can tell if someone is guilty or not.

 

[Ecofarm]

It just means that he lives in a FREE country with FREE SPEECH. Nobody should never be threatened to face a court only for expressing his point of view, no matter how stupid it is.

You've heard of slander and libel laws?

 

[JollyRoger]

Why did we even to charge these guys in the first place? Shouldn't we have just thrown them into Gitmo until the war on terror was over?

 

[blackheart]

You've heard of slander and libel laws?

What does slander and libel laws have to do with with borderline treason?