[SJSAMPLE]

What?
How do you know that nothing illegal occurred UNTIL you investigate?
Investigating these situations takes the initiative away from the hounding press and brings the facts out into the open. From now on, there's no doubt that nothing illegal occurred. If there wasn't even an investigation, somebody would always be bringing up this incident.

On another note, openly calling it the "Midtown Massacre" wasn't the brightest move, either. The term "massacre" does not bring up images of battle, but more of images like Wounded Knee.

[Poohbah]

Well put.

The only things that grow in the darkness are mushrooms.

[geopyg]

"On another note, openly calling it the "Midtown Massacre" wasn't the brightest move, either."

I agree. My deepest sympathies are for the young men that have to live with their doubts that lead to suicide, or to some reduction in their "morals" that lead to murder. I am always so impressed by those soldiers who can someone distance themselves from the horror of battle, and say "its just my job".

And the term "massacre" could have been used by the soldiers as a positive term as well - as in "man - we really massacred those guys". However, either positive or negative, it doesn't seem to be a term to use for "someone just doing their job".

All of that said - thanks to the soldiers that so bravely fought in a street battle that left hundreds of enemy dead and no American deaths. (Weren't we supposed to be in a quagmire if it turned to urban street fighting?)

[Polybius]

On another note, openly calling it the "Midtown Massacre" wasn't the brightest move, either...

Maybe not but, as the article pointed out, it was the soldiers who fought there that came up with the name right after the bartlle.

"Devil's Den", "Marianas Turkeyshoot", "Porckchop Hill", "Heartbreak Ridge".......The last thing on a fighting man's mind after a battle is whether or not the nickname they gave to their battlefield will be Politically Correct or not.

I think we can rest assured that the Pentagon is not calling it nor has called it the "Midtown Massacre".

Whatever the soldiers who fought there chose to call it right after the battle is alright by me.