Don't know why they bothered to print the rest of the article - this is the theme right here. And it's total crap.
In point of fact Haditha will have little or no effect on anything, whether this fleabag of trumped-up charges is made to resound throught the international media or not. Should the whole thing be shown to be a fake tomorrow - and that isn't at all unlikely - the BBC will bury that news as deeply as it can while it continues to the next story that makes the case that Iraq is Vietnam. And that's all that matters, not truth, but the theme.
We dropped two nukes in Japan and fire bombed Dresden. Many civilians were killed. But it prevented twice as many from being killed due to fanatics. What is happening in Iraq doesn't even rate a bloody nose and it pisses me off that those risking there lives are being taking to task for doing a dirty job.