Is bashing sockpuppets as much fun as Whak-A-Mole, or does it just get tiring?

I saw over at Ace’s that they have started using some new-fangled ID thing that gets stamped with your post (it’s the ‘new comment thingy’). But it looks like some folks could still get around it. I ain’t smurt enough to figur it out. I can barely handle the static IPs we use at work.

Il sergente dei marines Frank D. Wuterich ha querelato il congressman democratico John Murtha per diffamazione. Wuterich, uno dei militari statunitensi implicati nella cosiddetta strage di Haditha, in Iraq, ha chiesto di accelerare il processo che lo…..

Marine Corps staff sergeant, Frank D. Wuterich, has filed a lawsuit against John Murtha, the disgraced congressman from Pennsylvania, alleging defamation of character. Wuterich’s attorneys should face little difficulty demonstrating Murtha’s culpabil…

But you automatically assume that the military is refusing to go after the higher-ups.

LONDON — The American general who was in charge of Iraq’s Abu Ghraib (search) prison claimed she was being made a scapegoat for the abuse of detainees, and said her successor once told her that prisoners should be treated “like dogs.”

In an interview with British Broadcasting Corp. radio broadcast Tuesday, Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski (search) said Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller (search) told her last autumn that prisoners “are like dogs, and if you allow them to believe at any point that they are more than a dog then you’ve lost control of them.”

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Karpinski said that during a visit to Iraq in September, Miller — still the commander at the Guantanamo Bay prison — spoke of wanting to “Gitmoize” Abu Ghraib by applying the Cuban facility’s regimented detention and interrogation techniques.

“That training was going to come from the military intelligence command,” Karpinski added, noting that the troops under her command had no training in such interrogation techniques.

Okay, that’s not a liberal fantasy that higher-rankiing officers were involved in the abuse at Abu Ghraib, it’s another General speaking. Yes, she may have had reason to deflect attention away from herself, but here’s another story that lends credence that Maj. Gen. Miller was involved in the abuse:

An Army general who was in charge of the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay prisons has refused to testify against two soldiers accused of siccing dogs on Iraqi detainees.

But experts said Miller likely fears prosecution for ordering the use of dogs or he would help the soldiers by testifying. “What’s he afraid of if he’s already answered the questions?” said Geoff Corn, a former Army prosecutor.

Why aren’t the DoD officials also being sued? This lawsuit seems to be politically motivated.

The military was already investgating abu Ghraib before one of the soldier’s lawyers leaked the pictures.

Wrong, Geek. Might want to consult a lawyer. Reporting false inforamtion as fact does not shield the person. It is still libel.

What evidence do you have that the military has changed in how it investigates and prosecutes war crimes? Abu Ghraib? So far, only low-ranking members of the military have been prosecuted.

“In the court filing, obtained by The Washington Post, the lawyers say that Murtha made the comments after being briefed by Defense Department officials who “deliberately provided him with inaccurate and false information.” ”

If they’re alleging that the DoD lied to Murtha, who then repeated what the DoD said, then that pretty much exculpates Murtha as far as defamation is concerned.

Answer that, then explain to me how that shows that the military does a thorough job of investigating possible war crimes.

Recall some of the statements made by Murtha like:
* the Marines had “killed innocent civilians in cold blood”
* “It’s much worse than was reported in Time magazine”
[…]And you will understand where this Marine is coming fro…

The military does a thorough job without John Murtha. In fact it would be better worded as in spite of John Murtha.