Murtha: Scandal may undermine Iraq effort

That is, if there is anything left of "the effort" to undermine.

Tell me again, just what is it we are "efforting" to do?

Murtha: Scandal may undermine Iraq effort - Yahoo! News:

"'Who covered it up, why did they cover it up, why did they wait so long?' Murtha said on 'This Week' on ABC.

'We don't know how far it goes. It goes right up the chain of command.'

A bomb rocked a military convoy on Nov. 19, killing a Marine. Marines then shot and killed unarmed civilians in a taxi at the scene and went into two homes and shot other people, according to Murtha, who has been briefed by officials.

Murtha said high-level reports he received indicated that no one fired upon the Marines or that there was any military action against the U.S. forces after the initial explosion. Yet the deaths were not seriously investigated until March because an early probe was stifled within days of the incident, he said.

'I will not excuse murder, and this is what happened,' Murtha said. 'This investigation should have been over two or three weeks afterward and it should have been made public and people should have been held responsible for it.'"