Blog Maverick (Mark Cuban) uses Haditha of an example of how you can search for any topic in the news on MySpace and find hundreds of opinions on it. I wonder if anyone is statistically analyzing this information?
Blogcritics has three posts about Haditha, ranging from balanced:
"If the Marines at Haditha started indiscriminately killing civilians, they should pay for their crimes..... However, there are those who never pass up the chance to start throwing corpses at political opponents, and they are using this event to paint the military as a bunch of baby-killers or "prove" the policy of the United States is just to start killing people wherever they are."To slightly less so: "Similar stories of innocent civilians being killed have been reported before. Collateral damage, the war hawks call it; a small price to pay for Liberty and Freedom."
Captain's Quarters, a conservative blogger, is harsh on the "Haditha...turns out to be a real atrocity, the kind of shameful event that will justifiably haunt the US for years." and defends the Marine's actions against a coverup.
Crooks and Liars has five posts, mostly coverage on Fox News without a lot of commentary.
Kos has two posts: "Haditha Civilian Killings: "This One Is Ugly"" which is pretty much a summary of the story while the second provides the Iraqi PM's reaction.
Hugh Hewitt covers the story 5 times, including this review of mainstream media stories about the massacre.
Little Green Footballs talks about the alleged massacre, points out that the Reuters journalist reporting on the story spent 5 months in a US prison, suggests the reports aren't true, and suggests the story was broken over Memorial Day on purpose.
Michelle Malkin has 5 posts so far, including one where she suggests that it was OK to kill children because they sometimes spy for the insurgents.
The Huffington Post has over thirty entries. I won't bookmark them for you, but they range from liberal hysteria to measured analysis - I'll let you decide which.
Think Progress reports that Bush found out about Haditha after the press did, four months after the massacre. Four other posts offer a few extra details.
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