Full Metal Racket

When will the press stop their campaign to discredit American troops?

The bizarre demand for American atrocity stories can lead to some pretty silly press efforts to manufacture crimes in the near absence of actual crimes by our troops.

Case in point is the picture of an Iraqi woman who showed two unfired bullets to a reporter (so the caption says, anyway) complete with intact shell casings attached as evidence of American shots striking her home. (Tip to Instapundit)

That's our troops according to our Left--bombing villages, killing civilians, and heaving bullets at Iraqi homes by the fistfull. (Or are they just small diameter hand grenades?)

On the other hand, you have to admit it takes pretty hard core psychos to manually insert bullets into victims to kill them.