Who will be punished for Haditha?

By Clarice Feldman

This is how TIME captions its story detailing the present status of the case:

TIME first brought the incident and its contradictions to light in March 2006, beginning a series of official investigations and contributing to the loud public debate on the deployment of the U.S. military in Iraq. The trouble, however, has been with coming up with a prosecutable case against the Marines involved in the incident.

Almost from the outset the story the magazine brought to light had holes Humvees could drive through. It's unlikely anyone was at fault except the magazine which spun this tale with the assistance of some partisan ngo's , Baathists and a roving reporter chummy with the Taliban who was looking for a massacre story to demoralize the U.S. and its troops.

So, let me answer the question "Who Will be Punished for Haditha?":

TIME Magazine. It should be for this shoddy work on such an important matter.