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From: LindyBill	6/4/2006 7:17:01 PM
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NYT Editors: Bush Complicit in Alleged Haditha Murders By Patterico on Terrorism The New York Times editorializes about Haditha: Now that we have reached the one place we most wanted to avoid, it will not do to focus blame narrowly on the Marine unit suspected of carrying out these killings and ignore the administration officials, from President Bush on down, who made the chances of this sort of disaster so much greater by deliberately blurring the rules governing the conduct of American soldiers in the field. There you have it: if Marines executed women and children, it’s President Bush’s fault. The editorial also says something I agree with: The inquiry also needs to critically examine the behavior . . . of midlevel officers who apparently covered up the Haditha incident for months until journalists’ inquiries forced a more honest review. If midlevel officers covered up aspects of Haditha, we need to hold them accountable. But accusing Bush of complicity in alleged deliberate and unjustified execution-style murders is nothing but a political cheap shot — something said by Times editors just to send a little frisson of self-righteous anger through their bodies. I hope it felt good patterico.com

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