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The Iranian government and its Muslim supporters get all upset when America and Europe pressure Iran to follow the Non-Proliferation Treaty and not build nuclear weapons that they would most likely use against one of their neighbors.
However, stuff like this seems not to bother them much.

After weeks of nasty accusations that have more or less gone entirely unanswered, we may finally be getting the soldiers’ side of the story. If I were one of the men involved in this incident and the media said as much nasty stuff about me as they have about these soldiers, I would wait until being cleared by the courts, and then sue all the newspapers that have reported this as an intentional massacre.
I’m not saying that we should unconditionally believe the stories of the Marines in this story — I think the investigation is a good idea — but the media reporting only one side of the story and with such glee at ‘catching’ the Marine Corps as being ‘up to something’ just raises my hackles. If the media were really concerned about objectivity, they would have made more of an effort to get BOTH sides of the story, and present it in a way that wouldn’t attempt to inflame public opinion against the American military.