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This is a very well worded article about the obvious unbalanced carping from the anti-war, liberal media.It had to be excerpted and I had real trouble condensing to 100 words.Check out the whole article.

Most disturbing about this is the media coverage. I live in the Boston area, and I picked up the Boston Globe today, and there was another "Death milestone" article prominently figured. It is standard procedure for the NYT, Boston Globe, Washington Post, CBS et al. to put the phrase "This is the US casualty in Iraq since the declared end of major combat" But now, they seem to be jacking up this exercise by making every 10th casualty a milestone. No wonder the liberal media thinks Iraq is like Vietnam. They are trying their damnedest to make it so.

....I look at the wannabe punks in my neighborhood,and at the well able types all around---
and think of one of my kids that put everything down,walked away from it and joined the Marines in '01..
the 4 years have gone by,she would have graduated from college etc.
I watch the other kids get on with their lives totally unconnected/unconcerned from this.
yeah,u know it---she reupped.

"Yet Fallujah has suddenly popped back up as major news. Why? Because allegations have emerged that American soldiers beat prisoners there two years ago. The allegations were about beatings, not about torture or murder. At the time of the alleged incidents, in late 2003 and early 2004, violence in Fallujah was escalating. The 1st Battalion of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment had suffered 94 casualties inside the city -- one every other day."

Yeah, I agree that the media coverage is outrageously unbalanced, but, as a soldier who has done two tours in Iraq, I know that we have got to be nearly blameless and not do things like beat prisoners.... Not solely because of the bad media coverage... mostly though, because we are better than that. We are supposed to honorable in victory. Although I don't think this kind of thing should hit the news, I always hope that if the allegations are true - IF they are true - then an example is made to secure the Honor of the military I proudly serve in.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/07/AR2005100701703.html

Why was valor considered front-page news in 1945 and abuse considered front-page news in 2005?

Poor conduct, like shipwrecks, makes news. On the other hand, saving a ship should also make news. For saving a Marine in what is called "the house from hell" in Fallujah, Sgt. Kasal has passed into Marine legend. Yet Fallujah Redux as a front-page story is based on allegations of bad conduct, not of heroism. If a story about louts two years ago merits the front page today, then stories of heroes merit equal attention today and tomorrow.

But it doesn't because stories of heroes cannot easily be spun to bash Bush nor to support the terrorist cause. Those are the main items on the agenda of the MSM and everything else is subordinate.