No reasons to doubt the testimonies of Haditha victims

I fail to understand that even after so much of evidence is available to show that some US troops did indiscriminately fire their guns to kill 24 civilians in Haditha, there are some right wing pundits in the US who blame the media of sensationalizing the issue.

Right wing television station Fox News has been the conduit for these pundits to tear upon the media for asking/raising questions about the massacre and demanding that those responsible be held accountable.

One such pundit, Michelle Malkin, even goes as far as saying that she was dismayed by “a lot of our colleagues” who pretend to know what had happened in Haditha. She continued that there was a large antiwar contingent (meaning the media) that is willing to “believe every last lie” about the US troops.

Another pundit, Bill O’Reily who has his own show on Fox television, said in one of his programmes that "[p]redictably, the left-wing press has run with the alleged massacre at Haditha ... screaming about holding all of those involved accountable."

He continued by asking: "Why do so many rejoice when bad things happen to the USA?" "[T]he answer is that some Americans, including many in the press, honestly feel that the Bush administration is evil".

He said that the actions of a few will be used to demonize the entire country and likens it to the saying that if one child turns out to be a criminal, the entire family's bad.

Maybe these pundits have their reasons to doubt what is being written in the US media. For me, I think the media is doing its best to uncover any cover-ups and rightly so, those found guilty of the murders of these innocent Iraqi must face the music.

In the meantime I found this testimony of a young girl who witnessed the killing of about eight of her family members, including her father, by the US troops on the fateful day in Haditha. She was speaking in her language to the Al-Jazeera television and I have no reasons to doubt the English subtitles.