2/06/2005 08:10:41 AM|||Toni|||Villainous Company: In Defense of Jim Mattis

Just in case you don't go to all of Chester's links Cassandra (Marine Wife) has a great posting on this and she includes the quotes the MSM has been leaving out.

You know it's funny. The media like to talk about balance. How it's so important to "get the whole story". That's why (they intone piously) we must hear over and over again about Abu Ghuraib, and those innocent Iraqi casualties (but not the hundreds of thousands buried in Saddam's mass graves). We need to hear something other than the "party line": the "conventional wisdom".

That's why they can't bear to mention it when one of our boys wins is awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry.

Perhaps that even explains (in some perverse way) why, when we win an important battle, the headline reads only "10 Marines Killed Today".

They're making sure we get the "other side of the story".

So if balance is so all-fired important, why don't quotes like these get any airtime? They certainly challenge the conventional wisdom about war and Marines. This was General Mattis' guidance to his men:

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