MSM Regrets the Error
What is the matter with us when we call our generals liars, yet believe every tale of atrocity cooked up by the press?
The Marine Corps has dropped charges against the commander of the Marine company involved in the 2005 killings of Iraqi civilians in Haditha, Iraq.
Capt. Lucas McConnell, who had been charged with dereliction of duty, was also granted immunity to ensure he cooperates with the investigation, the service said Tuesday.
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“Lt. Gen. Mattis determined that administrative measures are the appropriate response for any errors or omissions allegedly committed by McConnell,” according to a statement from the Marine Corps base at Camp Pendleton in California.
We’ve been pretty skeptical about the story from the beginning—not that we deserve a medal or anything. How valiant or brilliant do you have to be to think the press is BS-ing pretty much full time? Haditha was America’s Jenin: a story that fit the media’s template of amoral soldiers fighting an immoral war. Like Jenin, too, the truth was nothing like what was reported.
So it doesn’t get reported. Much.
But we’re glad to see the at least the smallest measure of justice meted out to Jack Murtha for slandering the troops.
Even the Israelis are finding some small measure of justice:
Petah Tikva District Court is due on Tuesday to begin hearings on a NIS 2.5 million lawsuit filed more than four years ago by five soldiers who fought in the Jenin refugee camp during Operation Defensive Shield in 2002.
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The lawsuit includes 13 incidents it describes as libel. “All of the terrible things listed above did not happen and are not true.”
Not true? Big whoop.