Excellent point, Marine Uncle. Does anybody remember the other incident where 11 people were supposedly executed before we dropped a bomb on the house? No? Ishaqi. That's because it was shut down. There were no executions. It was an unfortunate casualty of war. And it was a total of 4 people. NCIS still wanted to exhume the bodies after the Marines were cleared, but didn't. Someone in that command in Iraq had enough clout, after they reviewed it of course, to shut it down.
Having said that, Lt. General Mattis could still use a little help from a few politicians, pundits, and friendly media types.