More agenda driven bullshit in today's Chronicle...above the fold the Baghdad Hotel bombing...below... this typical laundry list of US Military wrongdoing:
U.S. troops struggle to define self-defense, overaggression
The money graf:
'THEY SMILE . . . TRY TO KILL YOU'
"I don't need friends like this," White remarked. "They smile in your face during the daytime and they try to kill you at night."
The Iraqis "seem to have gotten pretty aggravated with us being around," said Private T.J. Knight, the driver of White's humvee. "I asked my interpreter if the Iraqi people are mad at us. He said that 90 percent of Iraqis hate us, and the other 10 percent have left Iraq."
In this jittery atmosphere of contempt and violence, force protection sometimes takes priority over the need to minimize civilian casualties.
All Iraqis hate us? That is such a pile of steaming Liberal donkey shit. We have done more to avoid and minimize civilian casulties in this war than any military force in history. Where was this criticism in 1999 when the Clinton Administration and General Wesley Clark were raining death upon innocent Yugoslavs?
A more accurate statement might be that 90% of journalists hate the US military and any Republican administration.