With the news that the tragedy in Hadithat that ended up with many dead Iraqis was not the fault of US Marines who fell under attack but, as we now know from years of bloody al-Qaeda carnage, the act of terrorists, one thing still needs to be done. Rep Jack Murtha needs to do the honorable thing, given the Marine uniform he once wore, and apologize for his
premature, uninformed and smearing comments from last year:

A Pentagon probe into the death of Iraqi civilians last November in the Iraqi city of Haditha will show that U.S. Marines “killed innocent civilians in cold blood,” a U.S. lawmaker said Wednesday.

From the beginning, Iraqis in the town of Haditha said U.S. Marines deliberately killed 15 unarmed Iraqi civilians, including seven women and three children.

One young Iraqi girl said the Marines killed six members of her family, including her parents. “The Americans came into the room where my father was praying,” she said, “and shot him.”

On Wednesday, Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., said the accounts are true.

The best you can say about this abhorent claim by Mad Murtha is he was a duped pawn of the terrorists. But I think he is much worse than that. I think he would smear Marines so that Dems could win more House seats and he could be Speaker (he did run for the job). And oiling the skids back home with his buddies through pork projects to get rich off of is not a bad second place job. His current leadership position gives him that much easily. Would Murtha lie and smear someone to get ahead? He wouldn’t be the first in DC and won’t be the last if he did.

But Mad Murtha could have proved me wrong. He could have started his sincere and public apologies by now, since this decision is no surprise weeks after we learned what was really going on in Haditha when the case against these Marines was proposed to be dropped. But did Murtha begin to recant? Hell no, he is only recounting – his pork dollars.

Murtha did one of the most dishonorable things you can do – as a Marine or an American. He lied openly (because he had no evidence for the statements of last year) about an incident where Americans on the front lines protecting this country were attacked and civilians killed. And he did it for political gain. The “Winter Soldier” syndrome Michelle Malkin wrote about regarding Pvt “Lying” Beauchamp is a much broader phenomena in the wacked out left in this country. While I am not including Democrats who remain proud of the military and this country in this statement, sadly the party is rife with these jerks.