New Evidence Emerges in Haditha Case

And the evidence, which is quite compelling, exonerates those Marines. They were attacked, and they responded. Civilians died because insurgents deliberately place them at risk.

This illustrates two things:

1. We shouldn't be so "hasty to believe flying reports to the disparagement" of our fighting forces, as George Washington might have said.
2. We deal here with people who consider their own people expendable.