If Mike Nifong can be disbarred for his attempt to railroad the innocent for political purposes, shouldn't John Murtha at least be censured by his peers for doing the same?

The parents of a U.S. Marine accused of killing three Iraqis execution-style in Haditha in late 2005 said Thursday they would ask Congress to censure Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) for saying that the Marines "overreacted" during the incident and killed civilians "in cold blood."

"It's too late for an apology," Darryl Sharratt of Canonsburg, Pa., told Cybercast News Service after the hearing officer in the case, Lt. Col. Paul Ware, released an 18-page report recommending that all charges against Sharratt's son, Lance Cpl. Justin Sharratt, be dismissed because his actions "were in accord with the rules of engagement and use of force."

Sharratt said that he, his wife Theresa and other supporters of their 22-year-old son were planning to visit Martha's office, and "we're going to ask for more than an apology."

"We need this man censured by our Congress," he said, because "he denied my son -- and the other Marines involved -- their constitutional rights to a fair trial and a presumption of innocence."

"This is what we've been fighting for in Iraq," Sharratt added. "This is what we've been fighting for -- what soldiers and Marines have been dying for -- for the past 200 years."

Before he had even been briefed by military officials, Jon Murtha had acted as judge, jury, and would-be executioner in declaring these Marines guilty of cold-blooded murder -- because it fit with the narrative he was constructing to justify his lack of support for the troops in Iraq. He has refused to apologize, despite a flood of evidence that shows his words to have been objectively false and defamatory of these fighting men.

Doesn't simple justice require that the House of representatives go on the record as declaring Murtha to have been morally and ethically wrong in his words and actions?

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