Since the onset of the war on terrorism, the antiwar movement has been searching desperately for this generation’s My Lai Massacre. Mired in the Vietnam Syndrome, or a desire to see the U.S. lose the war if not by military means, then by loss of morale, the co-called mainstream media has positioned itself as the propaganda arm of the antiwar movement. It might more appropriately be called the antiwar media.

So it was with barely concealed glee that the press broke the story on Memorial Day no less that U.S. Marines had allegedly committed "atrocities" against innocent Iraqis. It was claimed that during a counter-insurgency operation last November in the then terrorist dominated Sunni town of Haditha, Marines had deliberately gunned down 24 Iraqi civilians, including 11 women and children, in their homes in cold blood. The "Haditha massacre" as it almost instantly came to be known, would now be added to the canon of antiwar media talking points, alongside Abu Ghraib, Gitmo and other real and imagined "crimes against humanity."

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