Double Ditto.
As a former journalist, I am ashamed of our news media. They're all owned by corporations now who censor the news to a certain extent. If it doesn't feed their corporate needs, screw truth.
Our troops deserve commendation for doing a helluva job under the worst of circumstances including betrayal by the Administration from the beginning. Sending them over there without the body armor and armored vehicles they needed, and in insufficient numbers to do the job, and with extremely poor planning, was criminal.