The story about six worshippers being burned alive while Iraqi troops stood by and watched bothered me so much I went on a rant in the November 24th posting “The Real Evil”.
The one thing that really struck a nerve was that no one raised a hand in their defense and I questioned whether people who do not act in defense of their neighbors deserve freedom.
Now it looks like there is a strong potential that the story that sent me down that path was a fabrication picked up by the MSM and printed as fact (from Gina Cobb):
Capt. Jamil Hussein — the source cited in one news report after another for some of the most inflammatory accusations against Shiites in Iraq — such as the claim that six Sunni civilians were set on fire — doesn’t exist.
I suppose we need to realize that facts and truths are not easy to come by in wars, but we have a right to expect that the media folks reporting on this stuff are checking the facts before reporting them.
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