Because of stories like this that they deliberately spin the wrong way about our fallen soldiers. Michelle Malkin has the details on exactly what it was in that story that they conveniently left out.
First it was lawyers arguing that one rapist in a group of gang rapists should have been given a lesser sentence partly because he was a “cultural time bomb”, now this – via Australia’s Herald Sun news outlet:
Update: Eeep! I didn’t realize this story was a little over a year old. My bad … oh well, it was news to me, anyway 😉
From the president of one of the (correctly labelled) axis of evil countries:
The media has been marching to the steady drumbeat of the official 2,000th US troop death from the war in Iraq. The number of stories via Google News: close to 2,000.
Robert Kagan has a column up today in the Washington Post that puts pre-Iraq war reporting in context, starting with the headline “It Wasn’t Just Miller’s Story”. From the column:
