Battle For Haditha Page #4

I wanna promote you to sergeant,

and I'm gonna recommend you

for the Bronze Star.

- Thanks sir.

- You kept your head in the game,

and you kept your Marines alive.

- Good to go?

- Yes sir. Thank you sir.

- All right. Job well done, Marine.

- Thank you, sir.

-All of you, great job.

- OoRah, sir. OoRah!

- Good job, Ramirez.

- F***ing sergeant.

- Ey man.

- Wat's up?

Have you been having nightmares lately?

Nightmares?

No, never.

It's like I cannot f***ing sleep, man.

Like, last nightmare,

I kept hearing like cries and sh*t,

like,

I keep seeing these f***ing bodies, man.

These f***ing women

laid out f***ing dead.

Their kids.

It's not so much the guys, man.

it's more like the women.

And then I see pictures

of like my f***ing mother,

laying next to them and, like

I just wish I could f***ing change

a lot of sh*t, man.

What are you talking about?

I feel like a lot of

those f***ing people

I killed are f***ing persons.

and you know me.

That I'm f***ing living with this guilt

for the rest of my life, man.

No, I f***ing don't

understand that either, man.

I feel like I'm personally responsible

for all those motherfuckers

that died underneath me.

Every Marine that died under--

underneath me.

I feel like I'm personally responsible,

like I could've f***ing changed this,

do you know what I mean?

I f***ing hate the motherfuckers,

the officers that sent us in.

F***ing hate 'em!

Ramirez, you all right?

F***ing hate 'em, man!

Everyone of them!

I f***ing give a f*** about

the f***ing medals, man!

They don't give a f*** about us.

They're going subway ? ? ? ?

It's the boss.

Do not engage the boss.

Roger.

Squib. Nobody is the ? ? ?

Direct Tango, direct Tango.

- ? ? ? building is to the boss.

- Roger that.

Major General, sir.

We ran a check on all the Iraqi dead

and none matches with

insurgents database.

Nothing that you say causes me any

undue concern...

It's a cleanly coordinated attack

and standard operating procedures

were followed.

This is the official press release

A U.S. Marine and 15 Iraqi civilians

were killed yesterday

from the blast of a...

roadside bomb in Haditha.

Iraqi Army soldiers and

Marines returned fire

killing eight insurgents

and wounding another.

The case first came to light when

a time magazin reporter received

video footage,

shot by a local Iraqi

journalism student.

It showed the gruesome aftermath

of the incident.

It also has interviews

with some of the survivors,

Safa Junis, 12 years old, is the only

living survivor from her family of 9.

She claims that the Marines came into

her house and shot her entire family.

Hiba Abdoolah and three children were

the only survivors of

a family of twelve.

If it had not been for

the Time Magazine report,

this case would never

have come to light.

The Marine high command failed to

investigate the events of November 19th

for over two months.

A blame, they say, must not be

allowed to stay at the enlisted level

but should be traced to its source,

which is the Secretary of Defense

and the Commander in Chief.

I am troubled by the

initial news stories, um...

I'm, uh,

mindful that there is a thorough

investigation going on.

If in fact the, uh...

you know...

laws were broken,

there'll be punishment.

One of the charged Marines,

a Corporal Ramirez,

according to his attourney

was nominated for a Bronze Star

for his heroism on the very

day that incident took place.

The Marines claim that they were

merely following their

standard operating procedures,

lost ? ? ? in extremely

hostile environment...

Sir.

Corporal Ramirez ? ? ? ? , sir.

At ease.

CPL Ramirez.

You're being investigated for

CPL Delacruz,

Five counts of murder.

CPL Matthews,

three counts of murder.

and Sgt. Ross.

three counts of murder.

Now it is my job

and your job as Marines

to protect the reputation, the honor

and the future of this corps,

and I will not have a band

of reckless Marines

ruin that future and that reputation...

Holy sh*t.

Ey Matthews, check that fire out.

Ramirez!

Ramirez.

You ok?

We've all seen a lot of action

at a young age.

I'm 20 years old, and this is

my third tour of duty.

We've all seen things that will haunt us

for the rest of our lives.

And I guess after a while

you just get hardened.

You become numb.

# We're on a mission to never forget

# 3,000 people that I've never met

# We want some answers and all that we get

# Some kind of sh*t

about a terrorist threat

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# We're on a mission to dig up the truth

# You think we're stupid

and there's no proof

# Well let me tell you

that the time has come

# To pull the trigger on the smoking gun

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# Don't listen to me listen to your head

# Don't listen

# Don't listen to anything they've said

# Don't listen

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# America has been hijacked

# Not by Al Qaeda, not by Bin Laden

# But by a group of tyrants

# That should be of great

concern to all Americans

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