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paddy_boy --
"I don't blame the military . . .
. . . for wanting to get their side of the story out there."
The military isn't to have "their" "side of the story". They are to function according to law and orders. They are REQUIRED to be politically neutral. ANY effort by the military to put a "positive spin" on their conduct is OVER THE LINE -- ESPECIALLY when intended to cover up murder and torture, and to go-along-to-get-along -- moral cowardace -- by imprisoning "bottom of the barrel" "bad apples" for what they themselves ordered.
"That's only natural."
Is it "natural" to ignore the law, and one's oath to protect and defend it, when doing so is inconvenient in relation to one's PROHIBITED POLITICAL agenda?
"The problem is that CNN failed to live up to its responsibility as a provider of objective, fact-based news, and allowed itself to be easily (WAY too easily!) transformed into a conduit of Pentagon propaganda."
The media is at fault for being a WILLING conduit of propaganda which individuals in the media in many instances -- and probably most -- were well aware that it was propaganda. HOWEVER, the media is NOT responsible for the military's willing and enthusiastic rejection of the rule of law -- and thus their oath -- in order to "pump up" a war in which many of them have a personal interest, from religiozealotry to racism to FINANCIAL GAIN.
