I posted the link because it is part of the information people need to generate an educated and informed opinion about why we are fighting, and what our enemy is like. Not because it was pleasant. I do it because only one side is being presented.

We were subjected to hundreds, if not thousands, of images of the abuses in that prison. Not on links that one can choose to ignore, but on television, on the front page of my local paper, and on practically every news website you can imagine, usually on the main page.

The video of the American being murdered in cold blood can be found only by trolling the deep places of the Internet, trying to locate a server that hasn't given up on it yet, and hoping the link lasts.

Apparently one piece of information is considered important to know, while the other isn't.

The media have their story: Failure in Iraq, condemnation of the president, and the presentation of the American military man or woman as either victim or monster. They are selecting and presenting information designed to confirm this view, and largely ignoring information that does not.

Those who are on the same side as the media have no problems finding news links to support them. I have a lot of trouble locating the information on the other side. Not because it isn't there, but because it isn't as ubiquitous.

Without justifying the behavior of the jailers, the prisoners in those photos were the same kind of people who sawed off Berg's head. Terrorists and insurgents.

I heard a Deroy Murdock this morning on the radio, who had called the prison staff and interviewed them, asking them exactly who the prisoners in the picture were. They couldn't give names, of course, but he was told what I just said: these were the people who were caught killing or trying to kill Iraqis and coalition forces. Snipers. Bomb setters. Bomb builders.

The staff member said that this reporter was the only one who had ever called and actually asked that question. Think about that.

The news of an artillery shell in Iraq containing nerve gas lasted about four minutes in the mainstream media. A search on the Yahoo News site under "Sarin" reveals no stories today at all.

The "massacre" of a "wedding party" has already made headlines around the world.

How many people will bother to wait and hear what the military side of the story is?