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But I'll be damned if I don't offer support to one of Brave young men when papers like the NYT, WaPO, LA times and others are making public issues of military matters. Who is the one that ran to the MSM when charges were preferred? 1. Was it the Marine Corps? 2. Did the MSM hear about the case and start reporting? 3. Did Lt. Pantano's defense team go on Fox News, Dateline, and Time Magazine, to further their strategy of attempting to manipulate public opinion? Personally, I've seen only a few articles from the MSM with a negative bias towards the accused. Most are from conservative publications taking issue with the Corps for its decision to allow charges to be preferred against Pantano. Now, the Apache helicopter pilot/gunner, and the Marine in Fallujah seem to be victims of negative reporting. I think that I heard the Pentagon correspondent for NBC call the terrorists fighting from the Mosque in Fallujah "unarmed" about 30 times. And, he seemed to harp on the fact that this Marine killed 3 other "unarmed" insurgents before he shot the ill-fated one that was captured on tape. Well, that correspondent needs to cop a clue and understand that in the grey area, the Corps will back its Marines. Pantano's case is very different. So, check yourself and the facts before you start blaming the MSM for Pantano's woes. He's the one that went to them.

Fine, you are right about this case not getting much MSM attention, however when you let the press into the game and you see what they and our traitorous Senators like Kennedy did with other issues in the war, I'm sorry but that lets the public in the game also. There was no way I was going to keep quite, and potentially let him hung out to dry as I'm sure it's been done before. If he really did commit a crime then I'm he will be convicted but given the pressure from around the globe and here within I want make sure that he is not made an example of. I hope you understand where I'm coming from and realize that this was getting more attention around the original post date. Also I do realize that congress has no direct influence in the matter but they can let it be known to keep it clean.