Monday, March 31, 2008

The Incredible Shrinking Atrocity

It's a case of the incredible shrinking massacre.

After first reducing the charges against him, the government has dropped all charges against Marine Lance Corporal Tatum:

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Not a single word of apology yet from Time which first floated the lie that the marines had engaged in a deliberate massacre in Haditha nor from Congressman Murtha who accused the Marine company involved with "cold blooded murder."

But this is another major instance where the blogosphere had the story right and the major media with all their resources, propagated a lie and kept it in circulation long after it was apparent the story of the Haditha "Massacre" was a bit of enemy propaganda.

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