" The media feeding frenzy around what has been referred to as "Iraq's My Lai" has become frenetic. Focus on US Marines slaughtering at least 20 civilians in Haditha last November is reminiscent of the media spasm around the "scandal" of Abu Ghraib during April and May 2004.
Yet just like Abu Ghraib, while the media spotlight shines squarely on the Haditha massacre, countless atrocities continue daily, conveniently out of the awareness of the general public. Torture did not stop simply because the media finally decided, albeit in horribly belated fashion, to cover the story, and the daily slaughter of Iraqi civilians by US forces and US-backed Iraqi "security" forces had not stopped either.
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There have been countless My Lai massacres, and we cannot blame 0.1% of the soldiers on the ground in Iraq for killing as many as a quarter of a million Iraqis, when it is the policies of the Bush administration that generated the failed occupation to begin with."
* byron york has a hit-piece out on Larry Johnson. SusanUnPC's smackdown of York here and here
* juancole has the not so great news about afghanistan.
* emptywheel's 3.3 anatomy of a smear
* in case you missed it - emptywheel and i had a little discussion in the comments here about factions and plame
* in case you missed it - miguel noted that in Sibel's great interview with Chris Delio, she mentioned that the person of interest wasn't actually a govt official in the Turkish embassy. see the update here
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