Robin writes about the “star”, Eliot Ruiz, of this piece of trash, entitled “Battle for Haditha”, here.

She has another post on it here.

You know you’re a hit with the anti-war, anti-American, anti-military crowd when you get a review on the World Socialist website.

In that post she talks about Cpl Roel Ryan Briones, a Marine that admitted he didn’t know what happened at Haditha, but is used anyway by the film maker Nick Broomfield as a source for “facts” regarding the incident. Broomfield hopes from his website that “Battle for Haditha” will turn into a modern-day “Apocalypse Now”, a Vietnam-era anti-war movie made by Francis Ford Coppola.

But today, versus during Vietnam, the anti-war movement is facing a countermovement, since more and more Americans across the country have awakened to this frightening, vicious and destructive internal threat and are doing something about it. Move America Forward, American Legion, Patriot Guard Riders, Eagles Up, Gathering of Eagles, and a number of other pro-troop organizations have risen to the task. In addition, we have a legion of honorable military men who are pulling for a “win” in Iraq–the other unreported side of the popular anti-war media blitzes showcasing Cindy Sheehan, Code Pink, Iraq Veterans against the War and Veterans for Peace as though they’re mainstream. Vets for Freedom are now on the last leg of their “Heroes Tour” across the country, which will finish in Washington DC. It is in DC where they will encourage our leaders and lawmakers to ’stay the course, stay the mission’, until we WIN.

Lastly, we even have the Liberty Film Festival, which features movies that don’t fit the Hollywood leftist activist agenda template.

But none of that discourages the moonbats; they just find another way to put out more anti-war propaganda. Idiotaria is a depressing world where there is nothing left to live or die for; where America hating, and donning Che Guevera t-shirts, pink berets or sporting a Keffiyeh scarf is propped as “fashionable”. What they particularly relish is producing anti-war America-hating rants in a vacuum where the lies they tell aren’t questioned or held up to scrutiny in any way. If “Redacted” and films like it aren’t enough, they’ve found a real story to spin, which as Robin points out, is little more than slander against the Haditha marines and their families; and another slap in the face for everyone serving and their families.

The REAL story of Haditha and the Pendleton 8 is a despicable example of political correctness run amuck. It has involved families having to mortgage their homes in order to defend their honorable family members who had done what they were trained to do. Instead of thinking the best of our boys, it’s not only the anti-war movement who thinks the worst of them - it is our own government, and politicians who are adored and lavished with praise by the terrorist aiding and abetting Code Pink; like John Murtha.

This movie, “Battle for Haditha”, assaults the men involved in the Haditha incident with a Hollywood production aimed at making another cheap political shot at the Iraq war; at the expense of the reputations of those who are trying to rebuild their lives after having had to endure this BS-which should never have occurred in the first place. Robin points out just one of the issues that makes it despicable:

The movie was filmed prior to the completion of the first Article 32 hearing so there was no review of the facts in the cases before presenting this atrocity of a movie to the public.

But leftists don’t care about “facts”, anyway, because as we saw with the Jack Idema story, they are perfectly willing to fit the facts to their political agenda, reject those that don’t, or simply manufacture those to fit the pre-conceived storyline.

Since the Article 32 hearings (where prosecutors put a lid on access to witnesses and evidence), 7 of the 8 have seen the murder charges dropped. The only one left now, is Staff Sergeant Wuterich. But that’s after the Pendleton 8 and their families were all dragged through the mud in the press, and emotionally and financially disabled by a government that you would think should support them for doing a tough job they were not only trained for, but SENT TO DO. Our own government has dragged them through the courts with government-paid counsel on flimsy evidence produced by a questionable terrorist-affiliated journalist and terrorist sympathizing Iraqis. And they’ve had to raise their legal fees on their own.

Diplomats, politicians and anti-war lawyers should have no place in this, yet those unqualified and in many cases military-hating people in government are constructing impossible rules to make it more difficult for our success. For example, you can’t shoot first against the enemy, you have to wait until you are shot at; and you shouldn’t return fire if it will result in civilian casualties. Because terrorists camouflage themselves within the civilian population, this makes things all the more difficult. So if you survive the bullets, THEN and only THEN are you allowed to respond–and only IF there are no civilians in the area. The Rules Of Engagement also prevents firing in the direction of the sniper shots for fear of civilian casualties. Terrorists know all about the ROE:

On the day of the firefight, Rooney said, Marines came under an attack that included both gunfire and explosives. One Marine in a Humvee was killed and two more were injured, and the resulting house-to-house battle between the outnumbered 4-man Marine “fire team” and the insurgents resulted in 24 Iraqi deaths, including 15 civilians.

Testimony also showed terrorists in strongholds such as Haditha had set up bases in a school, a mosque, and a hospital to be used to attack U.S. forces, and documentation showed that one terrorist suspected in the Haditha battle was tracked by an aerial drone to another house, from which he emerged a short time later holding a baby.

U.S. troops cannot return fire not only when the target could be in the proximity of non-combatants, but also when they are not actively sporting a weapon. So the combatant becomes a noncombatant as soon as he drops his weapon!

Whatever the response to terrorist sniper fire, IEDs or RPG rockets-rest assured it will be held under the greatest scrutiny. The assumption seems to be that our guys are monsters; because after they engage the enemy, they’re interrogated by the Pentagon about torturing people and killing civilians.

If you let the dogs out to attack an intruder, you take the leashes off. The leashes should be off our guys! Hollywood elitists should know by now that anti-war propaganda doesn’t sell; people aren’t interested in watching a Hollywood America-hating depiction of our military men and women as criminals and losers who are dependent on a broken system. America still loves a WINNER. What the anti-war moonbats are responsible for is a system which every day is infused with more political correctness. This one point in itself is getting our own people killed; a system the anti-war people are intentionally trying to break.

Even though the moonbats in Berkeley are fighting a loosing battle with the Senate as federal money previously flowing to Berkeley will be cut off, military loving Americans are boycotting businesses there, Code Pink was thrown off their corner in front of Walter Reed, the Iraq Veterans against the War failed in their mission at the Winter Soldier II Investigation, anti-war movies are tanking at the box office and regular Americans are taking a stand in our streets against people like Cindy Sheehan, they aren’t deterred. Their mission is to intentionally inflict more damage on our war effort, and to that end anti-war zealots created another piece of fictional propaganda in order to make their political point, and then stamped it as a ‘documentary’; to spin the Haditha marine story to fit their agenda.

Eliot Ruiz, a native of Philadelphia, portrays Cpl. Ramirez (Staff Sgt Frank Wuterich) in this movie. He claims to have been an Iraq war veteran himself, as part of the team that rescued Shoshona Johnson, and other POWs. (Jessica Lynch was rescued on April 2.) The only problem with that is…his dates are incorrect. He claims to have been ‘preparing to rescue American POWs’ on April 14, but the rescue occurred on April 13th. Additionally, he takes an anti-war stance, and is on record as congratulating an old Quaker woman who was sent to jail for ‘protesting’ the war in Iraq.

Lillian Willoughby, a Deptford Quaker¹ who will turn 90 in January, went to jail Wednesday to protest the war in Iraq. A young Marine from North Philadelphia came to speak with Willoughby. “I wanted to thank her for resisting this war,” said Lance Cpl. Elliot Ruiz, 19, who spent 5 1/2 months in Iraq before he was wounded when a car ran a checkpoint he was guarding near Tikrit, Saddam Hussein’s hometown. “It tore the back of my leg open,” said Ruiz, who had two decks of campaign ribbons, including a Purple Heart, on the chest of his blue, full dress uniform.

One has to wonder if those medals are real, and what the real story is.

It might be more instructive to find out if Ruiz is, in fact, a member of Iraq Veterans against the War, the Revolutionary Communist Party, Workers World Party, the International Socialist Organization, International ANSWER, United for Peace and Justice, or any other of these rabid and malicious socialist revolutionary “peace” or anarchist organizations. Or he could be just a ‘useful idiot’.

1. A quick look at flyers posted on the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) website gives one a clear understanding of where these people stand. Grassroots Voices, the explicitly radical-activist wing of the AFSC, sponsored their 2002 Conference On Justice And Global Security. In addition to the slew of anti-American workshops and classes held during the conference, the event was co-sponsored by the Communist Party USA and the Communist-founded National Lawyers Guild.

   Without question, the facts disprove the AFSC’s longstanding denial of a pro-Communist orientation. While not Communist in name, they espouse and endorse every plank of the Communist party platform. They hide behind the religious shield of Quakerism and non-violence. Their background in the Quaker Society of Friends provides a Divine legitimization for card-carrying Communists and their fellow travelers. The American Friends Service Committee is and has always been committed to undermining Western democracy, propping up Communist regimes and working for the total disarmament of the United States in the face of her enemies.-Gordon Lamb, (June 5, 2005) American Friends? Hardly-Frontpage Magazine[back]