Can't Make These Up: Old Media Searching Desperately for Bad News from Iraq
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By Tom Blumer on McClatchy Newspapers
The search for bad news relating to Iraq must be getting awfully difficult.
From the "Looking for, and Not Finding, a Dark Cloud on a Sunny Day" Department (HT Confederate Yankee, who says "you can almost feel their pain"):
'Fragging' Is Rare in Iraq, Afghanistan
American troops killed their own commanders so often during the Vietnam War that the crime earned its own name - "fragging."
But since the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the military has charged only one soldier with killing his commanding officer, a dramatic turnabout that most experts attribute to the all-volunteer military.
Yes, Associated Press reporter Estes Thompson actually spent over 650 words on the topic, "inspired" by only the second such Iraq-related incident, which is going to a military trial this week. In the process, he rehashes, almost nostaligically, the frequent fraggings (600, according to the Army, Thompson claims) that took place in Vietnam. |
