Murtha's appearance seems to be The Big Story out of the Sabbath Gasbags this time around. Before the show was even off the air (CDT anyway) I was seeing it in the "AP Reports" box most papers carry. I found the appearance remarkable--not for the Haditha Massacre & Coverup story itself, which blog readers have known for a week or more--but the fact that it could be discussed for ten solid minutes at least and the words "My Lai" never once get mentioned. What an exquisite squeeze the Bushits are in: Murtha can say, and others pick up and repeat, that this Haditha incident is "worse than Abu Ghraib" and the only line the warmongers could possibly come back with is "Yeah, but it's not as bad as My Lai!" Read more…