Haditha victims' kin outraged as Marines go free

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/41817.html

HADITHA, Iraq — Khadija Hassan still shrouds her body in black, nearly three years after the deaths of her four sons. They were killed on Nov. 19, 2005, along with 20 other people in the deadliest documented case of U.S. troops killing civilians since the Vietnam War.

Eight Marines were charged in the case, but in the intervening years, criminal charges have been dismissed against six. A seventh Marine was acquitted. The residents of Haditha, after being told they could depend on U.S. justice, feel betrayed.

[MadMaddie]

1. How is this any different from the first time Senior went in and

asked them to uprise against Sadam and then abandoned them. Like father like son..there was never meant to be a democracy or law in Iraq.We are seeing exactly what Bremmer, Cheney, *, Condi, Powell have done. These are war crimes.

[rhett o rick]

2. How far will we let these war criminals go in our name? nm

[MadMaddie]

3. I keep asking myself that question every day!