[Lazamataz]

It's fine by me. They can keep lying, and we'll keep busting them.

They lose credibility and we gain it. What's the problem?

[JasonC]

Our active enemies is a shooting war just got 10 million new recruits, nimnut! That is sort of a practical matter on the ground where our sons are getting shot at. They aren't getting shot at to get pols elected; whole political parties put up with crapstorms trying to get our sons what they need to do their jobs.

[ThirstyMan]

It's fine by me. They can keep lying, and we'll keep busting them.
They lose credibility and we gain it. What's the problem?

If it weren't for:
Seventeen dead, increased hostility to our troops/those supporting democracy and aiding the terrorist's recruitment with a false story from our press, I'd agree with you.

Note this is taken from a Reuters report on the Newsweek "Dan Rather" style retraction and semi-apology to the victims:

Newsweek said on Sunday the report might not be true.
"We will not be deceived by this," Islamic cleric Mullah Sadullah Abu Aman told Reuters in the northern Afghan province of Badakhshan, referring to the magazine's retraction.

So who are the "victims"?