What Did Happen in Haditha?

What really happen in Haditha? Before the Pentagon could finish it’s investigation of the incident, Time has already painted the Marines as revenge seeking murders, slaughtering innocent children and women. But now Time is starting to backpedal. They have added corrections to the very bottom of it’s two blockbuster exclusives on Haditha in their current online versions.

sweetness & light has been investigating and finds that there are questions regarding the veracity of their sources. Clarice Feldmen at the American Thinker has a narrative piece on the so-called massacre.

That something really terrible happened in Haditha everyone agrees. Just what exactly happen is the question. Greyhawk says

The accounts given are actually consistent - on the broader story - with reports from Iraqi civilians (houses were entered, non-combatants were killed). But the Devil's in the details, as they say, and in this case (as with most such cases) that's where divergence occurs

It appears that Time got a hold of what they thought was a great story. A story that would make the Marines look really bad. They gave no thought to investigating the information they got or who was providing it to them. They ran the story because they really wanted it to be true. Time is now on the hot seat. They are going to have to do better than their current “TIME regrets the error”. If they hope to survive, the mainstream media needs to think again before they rush to publish. They also need to make corrections or less damning information in a more prominent place in their publication, not hidden in obscure place where no one will see it. Thank God we have bloggers and other alternative media who make an effort to look for the truth without a hidden agenda.