I was reading an editorial by Cynthia Tucker on Haditha in which she said

However, it's Mr. Murtha's outspokenness, not the alleged atrocity, that is roiling the conservative blogosphere, where some correspondents continue to cast him as a cowardly ally of the French, if not a traitorous aide to al-Qaida.

And I was reminded of something Archie Bunker said on All in the Family. In an argument with Mike the Meathead he blamed Eleanor Roosevelt for "all the problems with the blacks." He said "before she started talking about them, we didn't even know they were there!"

It was a decent editorial, though she mischaracterized the pro-war bloggers.

If the peculiar ability to accept only rosy scenarios and optimistic forecasts about Iraq were limited to armchair hawks, it would hardly matter.

They're not armchair hawks. They're chicken hawks.