Good bye Abu Gharib

Three years, to the day, the US Military convicted one, I repeat one, Reservist Lt. Col. thereby closing the book on the Abu Ghraib prison episode. True to character, the Rocky Mountain News chose to bury the story on page 50A (Lone Abu Ghraib officer charged, 11/24/06). After piling-on with dozens of, Page One Tabloid headlines and Editorials speculating as to; Cover-Up, Scandal, War Crimes, Administration Incompetence and Mission Failure, the Rocky, like everyone else in the ‘Drive-By Media’ corrects the record with a single hidden story.
Without the benefit of evidence, the Rocky, along with the rest of America’s Main Stream Media (MSM) convicted President Bush, Sec. Rumsfeld and the US Military, leading average Americans to question the moral character of our troops and our mission in Iraq. The Abu Ghraib Media feeding-frenzy opened the door for journalists to take undocumented, cheap shots at our Country’s leadership and (its) moral authority to advocate the spread of Democracy in the Middle East or anywhere. Because of the hysterical, over-the-top reporting on Abu Ghraib, many of our own countrymen lost faith in our ability to succeed in Iraq, our adversaries took heart in the West’s despair and redoubled their own efforts to destroy a democratic Iraq and defeat America.
So, here we are, three years later and the most senior official to be deemed responsible for Abu Ghraib is not the President or Rumsfeld, but a Reservist who apparently was not particularly well trained for that command, but was otherwise an exemplary soldier. His crimes were more of omission rather than commission, but can the same be said of the RMN and the MSM?
Chalk up another one for the Drive-By Media – this time they really damaged America and managed to get the story completely wrong all at the same time. Way to go!