The Haditha Lie

At least that's what Mark Noonan thinks, and here's his reasoning:

1. Our troops have been having comrades killed by roadside bombs for three years now - why would this particular roadside bomb cause our Marines, who have behaved with exemplary courage and discipline all through this war, to suddenly run amok?
2. The evidence is very thin: a video clip and some second-hand hearsay. As all who read here regularly know, I consider a picture worth a thousand words - and every one of them is a lie. Just because someone has a video of people allegedly killed by Americans doesn't mean that Americans actually killed anyone, or that anyone was killed at all. Hearsay, of course, is just hearsay - it is worthless.
3. The military fell like a ton of bricks on an officer who merely fired a weapon in proximity to a captured terrorist. If our military prosecutors would go after a man for doing that, how could the massacre of 24 people in November of last year be missed until now?
4. It is too tailored for enemy propaganda: it is just what the enemy says we do, all the time. I don't believe too much in coincidences.

I tend to agree with Mark. The media has been so innacurate of late, and so quick to judge any adverse accusations concerning our troops.