And that is one triple-kegger headline.
[Today, defenders of the president's war and occupation of Iraq are suggesting that the killing of 24 defenseless civilians in Haditha, including defenseless women and children and even an old man in a wheelchair, were committed by only a few U.S. soldiers and that the rest of America’s occupying force are performing "heroically."
But when al-Qaeda recruiters show the Haditha photographs to men and women in the Middle East, will the reaction among prospective new recruits be, "Let's not focus on or exaggerate the massacre in Haditha because the other American troops in Iraq are performing heroically"?
After all, don't forget that in performing heroically U.S. forces have killed and maimed tens of thousands of other Iraqis as part of their invasion and subsequent occupation -- many more people, in fact, than were killed in the 9/11 attacks.
Who honestly believes that the friends and family members and even countrymen of those who were killed and maimed in Haditha -- or elsewhere in Iraq -- are likely to say, "We hate America not because of what they did at Haditha and the rest of Iraq but because of America's First Amendment and rock and roll"?
