Eager to score points against President George W. Bush, US Representative John Murtha (D-PA) is calling the November 19 incident in Haditha "murder". He claims there is a "cover up." Over 40 news stories appeared Memorial Day weekend calling Haditha, "an atrocity" or "a massacre." Murtha says, Haditha "is worse than abu-Ghraib." Terrorist cheerleader and Cindy Sheehan associate Dahr Jamail is calling for the death penalty. The terror apologists of the Council on American Islamic Relations are calling for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign. Al-Qaeda terrorists from Zarqawi's group, Ansar al-Sunnah are circulating leaflets in Haditha congratulating "those who participated in exposing the dirty deeds of the Americans."

The liberal media is chiming in to make sure that Haditha is used to wear down support for our troops in Iraq - just as they did with abu-Ghraib. Peering through the media smokescreen few have noticed that all of the actual shooting eye-witnesses in the media's kangaroo court are local Iraqis - witnesses who are under constant threat from terrorists and whose motivations may be suspect. All the US witnesses currently quoted in the media saw events before or after the alleged shootings - but not the shootings themselves.