Bush Learned of Haditha Massacre From Press

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Bush Learned of Haditha Massacre From Press

Posted on May 30, 2006

The president didn’t know about the November atrocity in which Marines killed 24 unarmed civilians until March, when a Time magazine reporter called the White House for comment on the story.

AP:

President Bush learned of reports that U.S. Marines killed two dozen unarmed Iraqi civilians only after reporters began asking questions, the White House said Tuesday.

Asked when Bush was first briefed about the events in Haditha, an insurgent stronghold in western Iraq, White House press secretary Tony Snow replied Tuesday: “When a Time reporter first made the call.”

Time magazine was first to report, in March, that the U.S. military was investigating a dozen Marines for possible war crimes in the November incident. The killings, which included women and children, came after a bomb rocked a military convoy on Nov. 19, killing a Marine.

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By anonymous, May 31, 2006 at 7:36 am Link to this comment
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I think it was irresponsible for Time to tell the White House about the massacre. If they wanted bad news, they’d make it themselves.

The way I heard it, Rove leaked this to a Time reporter to discredit any Marines who were involved.

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By William Day, May 31, 2006 at 7:01 am Link to this comment
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What happened to the worm’s connection with God? I thought he talked to him all the time. A loving God should have informed the least informed about something that important. God knows this son of a bush does not read anything, except those laws he wants to gut, nor watch worthwhile TV programs, so it would seem to be God’s obligation to keep him informed…if he really loved him!

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