It serves the biased media and the anti-war, anti-American yahoos who would like nothing more than to see us fail. They keep grasping at straws trying to find some kind of My Lai to shame our country into pulling out of Iraq. They tried with Abu Ghraib. When that didn’t work, they tried with Haditha. Since that’s not going as planned, they’ve latched on to another incident.
When the media starts covering stories like the entire village massacred (including children beheaded) by Al Qaeda or the story about the 11 year old boy cooked and served to his family to scare them into submission to Al Qaeda - then the media will gain a tiny bit of crediblity with me. Until then they can piss off.