We have another Eason Jordan incident. As Bryan Preston notes, the press should be even more sensitive to such charges in light of the recent Newsweek fiasco, but they seem to remain clueless.

Is it even necessary to "slander" the US military? Simply repeat the report of the Abu Ghraib prison abuses. That doesn't make the troops look all that good.

Thats right Mr Lander, ALL the troops should indeed be taken down a peg for the Abu Ghraib fiasco.

I am sure that whatever your chosen profession is, that no one who does a job like yours has EVER been convicted or even accused of committing a crime. You, Sir, are a man among men being of that job, training and education category. No way would anyone like you do drugs, slap women or molest children. Your class of individual is so far above all that.

While ALL the people in uniform are just scum and just haven't been caught yet, doing whatever crime they do.

Robert Lander encapsulates the double-standard at work.

Bias in the media? Deadlines, individual mistakes, misreadings, errors by a single editor. Nothing to see here, let's move along, certainly nothing systematic. To hold up any individual claim or case is to tar with a broad brush.

Abuses by the military? Common, systemic, systematic, ordered from above. Everything to see here, worth repeating years later, no need to confirm rumors or place in context. To deny a broad failure is to excuse it in its entirety.

"To deny a broad failure is to excuse it in its entirety."

So you are blaming the entire US military for what happened at Abu Ghraib?

No, Lurking Observer is simply trying to continue to justify his failed worldview by grasping whatever straw he can. He ignores one of many examples of bial and sloppy journalism while painting the military with a broad brush while offering no hard evidence to support his strawman assertion

This enables him to continue living in denial. How conveient.

I think some people need to go back and read more carefully.

Right, it's Robert nemo is describing, not LO.

Robert Lander, the anti-Bush media needed an "adverse record" from which to lynch Bush and the war. That is why they continue to inflate what was local hazing into a "tantamount to torture" story, and project it onto the entire military.

Now that Abu Ghraib is part of their war "record" it provides convenient justification for even more ridiculous assertions, like the Koran-in-the-commode myth. As in "Gee, I guess if Abu Ghraib happened, then the gist of the story must be true."

Meanwhile, back on Earth, in September Rush week will start in earnest and all those freshmen aspiring to join the fraternity are bracing themselves. And they should. The sheep have been shaved, leather hoods and collars are procured, and 50 gallon drums of vaseline are standing in the house basement.

When the Democrats said they support our troops, I guess they meant they "kinda" support our troops. Sorta.
-Steve