Iraqis are not all that cocerned about Haditha. It's just daily life for them

As I recall, My Lai wasn't that big a deal to the Vietnamese either.

It was a big deal to us. It should have been.

But My Lai, like Haditha, was not an isolated incident, like we all tried to convince ourselves, it was.

When will we ever learn?

AP Blog: End of deaths uncertain in Iraq - Yahoo! News:

"Allegations that American Marines massacred two dozen civilians last November in the city of Haditha are making big news in the United States but causing hardly a ripple in Iraq.
That may seem unusual, considering the firestorm that was unleashed two years ago when pictures surfaced of abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison. And the Haditha allegations may yet hit Iraq's front pages after Navy investigators announce their findings sometime next month.

For the moment, however, Haditha isn't making much of a ripple here, there is simply so much death and bloodshed in Iraq that a few more don't make much impact except to family and friends.

That may seem brutal, and it is. But considering Iraq's recent history, it's not surprising.

Since Saddam Hussein invaded Iran in 1980, Iraqis have had little real peace. Two years after the Iran-Iraq war ended, Saddam sent his soldiers into Kuwait, only to have them driven out by American-led forces less than six months later."