Murtha's Wrong Again: Marine Scandal Won't Shake the World As Much as Iraq Prison Sex Scandal Did

Representative Murtha's tooting his own horn again.

Now he's saying that the recent Marine Corps "atrocity" involving the slaughter of Iraqi civilians will inflame the Muslim world and undermine U.S. goals in Iraq more than the Abu Gharib sex scandal did.

No it won't.

As bad as this appears to be, it could quite easily have been another party that killed the Iraqis and not the Marines. There are no clear-cut photos of the Marines slaughtering the civilians as there were of U.S. military personnel sexually abusing Iraqi prisoners, nor of U.S. troops burning bodies of dead enemy bodies. There's tons of circumstancial evidence, but none of it has been officially confirmed.

Murtha is rushing to judgment before everything has been investigated. He needs to tone down his rhetoric and let the process work.

Sometimes it's too bad that the military is forbidden (by law) to say what's really on their minds about the civilian leadership. Some of the Marines want to give both parties a piece of their minds.