When all is said and done, Time Magazine’s Tim McGirk should be brought up on charges of falsifying an incident. Opinion Editorials Robin Mullins Boyd, writes:

“It started in November 2005. It became a political witch-hunt after Time’s Tim McGirk plastered the media with half-truths, suspect statements from eyewitnesses and a great deal of hearsay. It exploded into an anti-war talking point once John Murtha called it Áî?old blooded murder and compared it to My Lai. The media and the anti-war crowd were salivating at the thought of US Marines convicted of murder. It did not occur to them that the Marines deserved the benefit of the doubt you know, innocent until proven guilty.

The Article 32 Hearing for LCpl Justin Sharratt wrapped up Friday June 15. This was the third hearing for the seven Marines charged in the incident at Haditha in November 2005. Now that there is sworn testimony out in public (not just cherry picked leaked information), the media seems to have lost interest in the story. Other than the NC Times, most media outlets pick up abbreviated versions of the wire stories. Murtha is suddenly silent. Time does not have time for coverage. This means that a great deal of evidence has not been disseminated to the wide audience that was bombarded with premature claims of cold-blooded murder.”

As more and more of the real story of Haditha unfolds we see that this entire afair was nothing more than a media hit piece designed to attack the war effort in Iraq.

Boyd covers more than a few facts of “Did you know?”, detailing the unreported developments in the case since McGirk told his tale.