Political general ignores facts of ambush, accuses Marines of killing ‘innocent’ Afghans

Afghans villagers: “(D)runken Marines sprayed gunfire into crowds of unarmed civilians.”

The PC general: “I stand before you today deeply, deeply ashamed and terribly sorry that Americans have killed and wounded innocent Afghan people,” Nicholson told reporters. “The death and wounding of innocent Afghans at the hand of Americans is a stain on our honor and on the memory of the many Americans who have died defending Afghanistan and the Afghan people. This was a terrible, terrible mistake …That is not what America stands for.”

The report: “MSOC F received a suicide vehicle borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) followed by a complex ambush from both sides of the road,” Urquhart said in the report, which Galvin provided to the Washington Free Beacon. “Vehicles 1 & 2 returned fire to suppress enemy forces and positions.”

And: “The investigative reports were then presented to a three-member Court of Inquiry. After more than three weeks, the court cleared Marines of any wrongdoing, concluding that they were returning fire following a hostile ambush.”

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/marine-new-u-s-commander-in-afghanistan-threw-us-under-the-bus/

Link at http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/

(A commander in chief can always find a flag officer more interested in career than in the truth.

(I’ll admit to at least a little knee-jerk reaction here, when the people on the ground have a story not the same as a general officer who apologized to the indigenous peoples and threw around some soul-saving coin.)