Wednesday, June 07, 2006

The "Drive By Media" (Rush Limbaugh's scientifically accurate description) has already started to report this story in a manner that is likely do vast damage that may last for several years to the morale (and possibly recruitment) of our military. It will create a propaganda catastrophe of strategic proportions in our mortal struggle with radical Islam and their terrorist spear point.

And all this is being done by journalists who are seemingly oblivious to the consequences of their acts.

President Bush noted the extraordinary damage that reported events at Abu Ghraib caused and continue to cause. One can only imagine what the radical Islamist propagandists and recruiters will do with the Haditha incident -- especially since they will merely have to accurately quote from major United States and European newspapers and television news broadcasts. Is this any way to fight a war?

But Briones, the best friend of the Marine who was blown apart by a roadside bomb, told the newspaper he took pictures of the victims and helped carry their bodies out of their homes as part of a cleanup crew.

What continues to torment him, he told the Times, is the memory of the body of his best friend as well as the lifeless form of a small Iraqi girl. The girl was among the civilians allegedly killed by members of his Camp Pendleton unit, the report said.

"They ranged from little babies to adult males and females. I'll never be able to get that out of my head. I can still smell the blood," Briones told The Times.

John Sifton, of Human Rights Watch, called the alleged event "a massacre" and told the Times "the Haditha incident is likely the most serious war crime that has been reported in Iraq since the beginning of the war."

[Sen. Wayne Allard (R-Colo.)] held a news conference Monday at which the speakers said they wanted to reduce the "epidemic level of fatherlessness in America."

"How would outlawing gay marriage encourage heterosexual fathers to stick around?" was the first question. Allard skirted the question by saying that "laws send a message to our children."

The moderator, Matt Daniels of the Alliance for Marriage, tried to find a question on another subject. But when reporters continued to press Allard on the link between same-sex marriage and deadbeat dads, Daniels blurted out: "All right, you know what? We're going to call this press conference to a close."