" Smell Of Death? BUSH" <throwshit@bush.net> allegedly said in
news:jRDgg.16347$VE1.4445@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com:

FOX News' Michael Reagan And Sean Hannity Blame Democrats For Haditha
Massacre---
Surely if there was any marginally believable way for FOX News to
accuse Congressman John Murtha of having personally murdered innocent
Iraqis in Haditha for the sake of political gain, Sean Hannity and
Michael Reagan would have done so last night (5/31/06) on Hannity &
Colmes. They are clearly so desperate to change the subject away from
what actually happened in Haditha and the likely cover-up that
followed, that they can't say enough bad things about Democrats in
general and John Murtha in particular.

It's pretty clear from the questions Alan Colmes asked and the ones he
didn't that there's some kind of "don't ask, don't tell" policy about
a discussion of the events at Haditha on FOX News, or at least on
Hannity & Colmes. Just as Hannity and Reagan tried to make the story
about Murtha, Colmes tried to make it about Bush. Playing a clip of
Bush saying that anyone who had broken the law would be punished,
Colmes said it was reminiscent of Bush's comments about the leaking of
CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity and questioned Bush's sincerity.

It was a good point but hardly the leading one about this story. While
every new fact and allegation in the Duke rape case is discussed,
analyzed and rehashed nightly, there has been very little discussion
about what actually happened at Haditha and/or the cover-up that may
have followed. Not discussed last night was this heartbreaking but
thought-provoking report about differing statements from two children
who survived. There was absolutely no discussion of the alleged
cover-up.

Reagan told Colmes he (Reagan) didn't care what the president said
about Haditha. "The issue is John Murtha and the people on the left.
What John Murtha is doing is in fact, besmirching the marine corps,
besmirching what's going on over there and trying to make Iraq into
another Viet Nam which it is not. Those men are going out there and
dying each and every day and you people and people like you (meaning
Colmes and other liberals) are finding guilt before innocence."

With dramatic Hanctimony, Hannity asked Reagan, "Why is there this
unwillingness to even give the benefit of the doubt to the people that
are protecting our most basic liberties when the facts haven't even
been established yet? Why is there this impulse among the left to do
this, like Jack Murtha saying 'they're killing people in cold blood?'"

Predictably, Michael Reagan was ready to take that cue and pounce.
"Well, that's what's so outrageous to me. And just to take this
position that, in fact, you know, find the Americans are wrong, find
that the marines are wrong before all these facts in fact do come out.
We do know that insurgents - every one of us on this program know
(sic) that insurgents hide in homes where innocent people are. They
don't mind that innocent women and children are killed by collateral
damage so they can use it as a ploy to recruit more insurgents. And
they know that the liberal left in this country will use the same
issue. And that is a terrible thing."

Democratic "strategist" and FOX News contributor Bob Beckel made a
half-hearted argument. As he usually does, Beckel seemed more
interested in pointing out where he agrees with Hannity than in
arguing with him (though Beckel had one great moment when he
confronted Hannity for his hypocritical rush to judgment defending
"rich, white boys" in the Duke rape case). "I said at the outset I
think we ought to wait until the facts are in."

Hannity pounded on the desk with bullyboy fury. "You don't have the
moral courage to speak out and say, 'Jack Murtha, be quiet until this
is finished.' Why?"

Did Beckel say that Hannity should have the moral courage to speak out
and say that killing civilians must be investigated, even if it
doesn't reflect well on the commanders? Did he say that the real
cowards were those trying to make the issue about Murtha instead of
Haditha and/or the conditions our troops are fighting under? No. Once
again, Beckel tried to appease. He said Murtha's statement that the
marines killed "in cold blood" was "a terrible use of words. I think
that the best thing that could happen here is that - these other
marines in this area right now are probably in greater harm's way
because this story is beginning to get out."

"Because of Murtha," Hannity said. "And people like him.!"

http://www.newshounds.us/

God Bless John Murtha.

His act is completely courageous and fully patriotic from a standpoint
of a Congressman. His job is to ask questions about the President, and
he, a Congressman representing only 1 district in the United States is
asking questions that more than 50% of hte American People want
answered. He does Congress Proud; he does his district proud.

The Leaders who sent our soldiers to war, especially the leaders who
bent the rules to get war done should be questioned not just for why
we are there (although that question has never fully been answered);
but also why they have no answers for anything that has been handled
terribly there.

The clock is ticking. Its time to move out. These atrocities are
unbearable. War is a reality that is uneeded in Iraq.

If Bush can't end the Wars then Americans need to end George Wmd.
Bush.

God Bless You, John Murtha.

Who cares... it's just "FUX", only dribbling low-IQ bush-worshipping
assholes watch that crap... it's just the Whitehouse Press Office...
credibility zero....

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AW

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