So-Called Haditha Massacre

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More RBI's Than A-Rod: The Savage Nation Slowly Chips Away at the So-Called Haditha Massacre

Andrew T. Durham
September 21, 2007

The fabrication of the Haditha "Massacre" is crumbling piece by piece before our eyes. Methodically, like military precision, the onion peels are dropping away as soldier after soldier involved in this disgraceful charade have their charges dropped. In short order, with the grace of God, all of these victimized soldiers will find themselves exonerated and, at the same time, independent radio talk show host Michael Savage comes all the more closer to batting a thousand.

I say this for the very reason that Michael Savage is the only major radio personality who personally dedicated any time to this issue. In fact, I will never forget the Monday Savage returned from a weekend, saying he had decided to make the issue of the so-called Haditha Massacre, and the trial of Colonel Jeffrey Chessani, his personal mission. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up, realizing that this man was actually doing something with his influence and his audience. Savage had decided to instigate change. This was oddly ironic, as not long before that I heard Rush Limbaugh say one afternoon "I don't do causes". Well, that's in part because he doesn't actually DO anything. A cheerleader cheers.[I must say, as a side note, that there was some satisfaction on my part when one day last week Limbaugh repeated verbatim a paragraph from one of my recent articles on Hillary Clinton. Uncredited, of course.] In any event, Michael Savage doesn't do causes either. He becomes them. Savage has been, to my estimation, completely accurate so far in his predictions of major news stories involving real issues and people. Savage has mobilized thousands to actually get involved in issue after issue, instead of just damning the liberals, the conservatives or George Bush. This is no small thing. Think about it: no one in Congress has been able to do that with their own constituents. And I hope in the case of these Haditha soldiers he is right again.

As a little background to this, on 9/11 this year I found myself stewing on a lot of negative things the entire day. The ironic thing was that it was an absolutely beautiful day here in upstate New York. As I walked down a busy main street I saw a Marine standing outside a recruiting office. I immediately walked up to him and said "Thank you, sir." He looked all of 21, but there he was, having become something I could never be. He simply smiled and said "No thanks necessary". My heart swelled because I meant it. This was doubly important because I used to be a knee-jerk radical liberal, filled with contempt for the military. If I can paraphrase George Carlin: "I was a liberal until I reached the age of reason." So understand that these comments of mine do not come from blindly following ideology.

What completely gouges my stomach out in this matter is a supposedly ex-Marine Congressman Jack Murtha immediately declared this a massacre, thus the soldiers guilty, before even the military had any complete knowledge of the event, and before the media had been given the full playbook by Tim McGirk of Time Magazine. I have absolutely adored the recent events in which Murtha has been cornered by real journalists, referring to the exoneration of the majority of these soldiers, leaving him huffing, puffing and turning red. Let me put this a succinctly as I can: the real Haditha Massacre is to come. This will involve McGirk and Murtha in a court of law, being sued into the Stone Age. As for possible criminal charges for them, I can stick that on my Christmas list.

Let me be as clear as I can. What has been done to these soldiers is inexcusable. At the very least, people involved in this immense lie need to be rendered homeless...or worse. Everyone gets what's coming to them. It's the way life works. I have seen it with my own eyes. So have you. Look at what's happening to O.J. Simpson now. We all have but to wait.

I have followed absolutely every level of this and have listened to every interview of Chessani's lawyers on the Michael Savage show. I have also listened and NOT HEARD similar human concern or outrage from any other source. This is pathetic. Not that Michael Savage is taking this issue on like a dog with a show in its mouth. It's pathetic because this is positively massive and nobody seems to care or see where this came from. Or, more importantly, where this could go. The lighthouse in this fog is that The Savage Nation has a listener base of people who care. This is not a cult of personality, like, well, you know who. And make no mistake: there is nothing...NOTHING more terrifying to those in the power elite than people who care.

Keep scaring the crap out of them.

http://www.americanchronicle.com/art...rticleID=38206

-I really hope that bastard Murtha gets whats coming to him, son of a bitch accused our fine soldiers for political points, they had to spend the last few months of their lives in a military brig. too bad it'll never happen in this politically correct nation of ours

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Savage is hands down the best commentator around today.. from politics to personal stories about growing up on the lower east side and queens..And his knowledge of history is unreal..I seriously dont know how people can listen to rush or sean fuckin cheerleader pawns ..

As for these soldiers thankgod they are being cleared ..Murtha should really resign what a fuckin turncoat ..