Murtha: Marines killed civilians

Salon by Michael Scherer, Mark Benjamin | May. 18, 2006 (News Report)

A senior House Democrat with close ties to the military claimed Wednesday that U.S. Marines wantonly killed innocent Iraqi civilians, including women and children, in an early morning raid last November, buttressing a March report by Time.

"Our troops overreacted because of the pressure on them, and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood," said Jack Murtha of Pennsylvania, a decorated Marine Corps veteran who served in Vietnam and is among ... Full Story »

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by Kathleen R Johnson - Oct. 1, 2008

Lead sentence uses the word "wantonly" - a provocative and biased word, and it isn't clear that Murtha would agree with this characterization. Also, it doesn't appear that the authors did much investigating on their own for this story - second hand reporting I call it.