Ted Poe: “the New York Times called it the ``nightmare'' killings of Haditha, Iraq, and the ``defining atrocity'' of the Iraq War.…”

“the New York Times called it the ``nightmare'' killings of Haditha, Iraq, and the ``defining atrocity'' of the Iraq War. Maureen Dowd of the New York Times referred to the incident as the ``My Lai Acid Flashback.'' Another New York Times reporter filed 36 stories on what he called the ``cold blooded killing,'' saying, ``This is the nightmare everyone worried about when the Iraq invasion took place.'' Self-proclaimed expert and ``worst person ever,'' Keith Olbermann of MSNBC, called it ``willful targeted brutality.'' Nation Magazine said of the event in Iraq that ``members of the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment perpetrated a massacre.'' And even a Member of this House of Representatives said, ``Our troops overreacted . . . and killed innocent civilians in cold blood.'' It has become the largest investigation in the history of Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which has 65 government agents assigned to this one case. Mr. Speaker, as a former judge and prosecutor, I have never heard of 65 criminal investigators assigned to one case except the 9/11 attack. What is the terrible atrocity these news sources are talking about? Well, Mr. Speaker, the Haditha, Iraq, incident took place in November of 2005 when our Marines were attacked by the use of a roadside bomb that exploded, killing one Marine and wounding two others. The Marines were then engaged in a firefight. Twenty-four Iraqis were killed, including some civilians.”