YOU GO TO WAR WITH THE MEDIA YOU HAVE By Clifford D. May

Newsweek told the world that guards in Guantanamo were flushing Korans down the toilet. It wasn't true. Time told the world that Marines committed a massacre at Haditha. That, too, turns out to have been wrong. As the Wall Street Journal makes clear:

It seems Haditha, though tragic, was exploited politically, and the allegations were exaggerated, if not unfounded. ...
The first imperative is to understand the complex, asymmetrical combat conditions in Iraq. The Marines were (and are) facing a determined enemy who dress as civilians and use homes, schools, hospitals and mosques as their bases of operation. They try to goad killings among the civilian population because it foments domestic opposition against U.S. troops while undermining them with elite international opinion.

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