In the US, the media drives public opinion. Although public opinion doesn't seem to really have all that much effect on policy or how policy is enacted, it does have the appearance of giving it legitimacy. So whoever controls the mainstream media in the US, has quite a lot of control over the government and the things it does.

So where is it happening now? Even with the election news, those stories should fill the papers, be even bigger that the troubles in Haiti. So where is it happening now? Even with the election news, those stories should fill the papers, be even bigger that the troubles in Haiti.

Right now, our troop related activity seems to be mostly in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan. Now, in the case of Afghanistan, there are reports of mass killings of enemy combatants who were in custody as prisoners of war. This isn't happening right now, but it happened fairly recently. The bodies of these men have been found in mass graves. There are reports that US troops were present during the process of killing these people. Some were sumarily executed, but some died in the trucks that were transporting them.

Have you heard about this story, either in the mainstream US media or on the internet?