Seventh Haditha Marine Innocent

The seventh U.S Marine had his charges dismissed on Tuesday. Murtha (D-Ohio) is still a dirtbag who should resign immediate only after he publicly apologizes to these Marines for saying they killed in cold blood. We must not also not forget that the Democrat Presidential candidate Obama sided with his fellow antiwar Democratic colleague Murtha on Hannity and Colmes in June 2006

Colmes: Did Murtha say that in the right way?

Obama: "You know, I don't have the exact quotes in front of me. What I know is here is a guy who served our country. I would never second guess John Murtha... I think he's somebody who knows of which he speaks"
Both of these men are A**hats and are an embarrassment to all real Americans.


From Mark Walker, North County Times

Military Judge Col. Steven Folsom dropped all charges against Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani, who was accused of violating a lawful order and dereliction of duty, at a hearing at the Camp Pendleton Marine base in Southern California.
Folsom threw out the charges against Chessani, a 44-year-old Colorado native, after finding that a four-star general who oversaw the case could have been influenced by an investigator who later became his adviser.
The dismissal of charges against Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani came after a finding that then-Lt. Gen. James Mattis was unlawfully influenced by a Marine attorney who participated in an investigation of the killings and then became the general's top legal adviser.

The ruling by Col. Steven Folsom, the judge presiding over Chessani's case, was a major blow to the government, which has seen charges against seven of the eight men accused with criminal wrongdoing in the 2005 killings dismissed or withdrawn. Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich is for now the lone Haditha defendant.

Folsom ruled the participation of Col. John Ewers as an investigator and report writer in the Haditha killings and his later appointment as Mattis' top legal aide constituted unlawful command influence.

Ewers' depth of involvement, he said, "tainted" the charges against Chessani beyond repair.

"Unlawful command influence is the mortal enemy of military justice," Folsom said. "The appearance of unlawful command influence is as devastating as actual manipulation of a trial."

A dismissal, he said, was necessary to maintain public confidence in the military justice system.