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Happy birthday to the United States Marine Corps, on the 233rd anniversary of their founding. Semper fi!
The most ludicrous politically-motivated prosecution of US soldiers in the nation’s history continues to collapse, as 1st Lt. Andrew Grayson is acquitted in the Haditha case: Marine acquitted in Haditha killing cover-up case. CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. - A military jury acquitted a Marine intelligence officer Wednesday of charges that ...
And they really do despise their own country. At the Berkeley Daily Planet: Commentary: Why I Don’t Support the Troops. If you “support the troops” in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the other more than 100 countries in which they are located, you also objectively support U.S. hegemony in the world. ...
LGF, Berkeley, Marines, Moonbats, Leftists, Protest, Sedition, Self-Hatred, Anti-Americanism
The undead lurking thing known as zombie has greatly expanded its report on the Moronic Convergence in Berkeley earlier this week, with an inside look at the strange mating rituals and ceremonial pseudo-aggressive behavior of the moonbat horde and its aging commissars: Berkeley Marines Protest.
Yes, today we had another massive moronic convergence in that city by the Bay, and the merciless eye of zombie was there, recording dispassionately as the moonbats performed their weird rituals: Berkeley Marines Protest.
At the CODEPINK demonstration outside the Marine Corps recruiting office in Berkeley, the Marines are getting no help at all from local police. This video shows the thuggish protesters blocking the doorways, as policemen do nothing. One of the cops tells a counter-protester, “We’re trying to remain neutral.” (Click picture ...
Pelosi yanks Murtha’s chain: Top House Dem aide on Murtha: “Pelosi is going to be furious” that the surge is working; Update: Murtha backtracks, “clarifies”.
Bill Amos has details and Allahpundit has some crow for Murtha to eat.
Defend Our Marines points out a Marine Corps intelligence summary on the Haditha murder inquiry, alleging that the incident was a deliberate scheme by Al Qaeda terrorists to demonize the Marines: Al Qaeda In Haditha: The Battle the Media Ignored. October 6, 2007 – Buried in the mountain of ...
The presiding officer in the Haditha case has now recommended that all murder charges be dropped against the last Marine on trial—but says he should be charged with negligent homicide instead. CAMP PENDLETON — A Marine Corps official has recommended that murder charges be dismissed against a Camp Pendleton ...
LGF, Iraq, Haditha, War Crimes, Marines
Jack Murtha is confronted by Jason Mattera of the Young America’s Foundation.
At Blackfive, Uncle Jimbo has tracked down the Marine whose terrific spoken word video we featured Monday. His name is SSgt Lawrence E. Dean II, and the video was inspired by his grandmother.
Even if you’re not a fan of the poetry slam, here’s one you’re gonna love. (AP says it’s going viral, so I thought I’d do my part to help.) [Video]
At Hot Air: Rep. Murtha’s office hangs up when asked about the Haditha Marines.
All charges have been dropped against two of the Marines in the Haditha case. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A U.S. Marine general dropped all charges on Thursday against two Marines in the shooting deaths of 24 civilians in Haditha, scene of what Iraqi witnesses said was a massacre by American ...
LGF, Iraq, Haditha, War Crimes, Marines
A hearing officer in the trial of one of the Marines accused of murder in Haditha has recommended that the case be dropped. SAN DIEGO (AP) - The government’s case against a Marine accused of fatally shooting Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha lacks sufficient evidence to go to ...
LGF, Iraq, Haditha, War Crimes, Marines
Here’s an interesting interview with former University of Wisconsin football player Jake Wood, about his experiences as an enlisted Marine fighting in Fallujah: Lion in Oil: An Interview with Jake Wood.
The Marine Corps Times has a report on Joshua Belile, whose song “Hadji Girl” aroused the seething of CAIR—and it looks as if Cpl. Belile has been gagged: Record producer: Marine will not record ‘Hajji Girl’. (Hat tip: Michelle Malkin.) Belile, in a June 26 e-mail exchange with conservative blogger ...
Great news as Cpl. Joshua Belile will not face any punishment for the “Hadji Girl” video: US Marine exonerated for song about killing Iraqis. But notice, as usual, the insanely biased Reuters opening line: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military will not punish a Marine who performed an obscenity-laced song ...
Here’s another “progressive” web site absolutely horrified at the “Hadji Girl” song, and even more horrified that LGF would (gasp!) defend it: Hadji Girl - Center for Media and Democracy. A typical paragraph: It would be a mistake to imagine that the casual brutality of “Hadji Girl” is coming from ...
Not a single wire service or news organization has issued a correction to their blatantly incorrect stories about the “Hadji Girl” controversy, in which they parroted the false claims made by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and probably damaged a young Marine’s military career. Instead they’ve all simply moved on ...
In this article about the “Hadji Girl” controversy, notice how the Saudi-funded radical Islamic propaganda site IslamOnLine describes the Haditha incident: Last November, US soldiers killed 24 Iraqi civilians, including seven women and three children, near Haditha as they had gone on rampage after their patrol was attacked. At ...
Reuters begins their latest piece on the “Hadji Girl” controversy by repeating CAIR’s smears and distortions about the video once again: Marine being probed over song on killing Iraqis. (Hat tip: Allahpundit.) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Marine Corps is investigating whether a Marine did anything wrong by singing ...
At Quantico, the Marine Corps recently opened their first-ever Islamic prayer center: Marines open Islamic prayer centre. General Mike Hagee, the Marine Corps’ commandant, was among the top military leaders who attended the dedication of an Islamic prayer centre at the Corps’ Quantico base in Virginia on Tuesday. Yesterday at ...
The Marine who wrote and performed “Hadji Girl” tells his story to the Jacksonville Daily News: Humor attempt falls flat. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Cpl. Joshua Belile, a 23-year-old who lives in Jacksonville and serves with Marine Light/Attack Helicopter Squadron 167, said the song was meant only as a joke, ...