The Un-Democrat

A somewhat encouraging sign from Senator Carl Levin on Sunday:

WALLACE: And what about the idea that this says something about the overall mission?

LEVIN: I think that we've, frankly, been there so long that we're going to see quite a few of these incidents. They're intolerable. We train our people not to kill innocent folks. But will there be a few of these? I'm afraid there will be. There are in other wars. There will be in this war and are, I'm afraid, in this war.

But is it a pattern? No. I think 99 percent of our troops are fighting professionally. They've been trained well. I hope it's not a pattern, but there will be a few.

Though seconds before he was pushing the line that there was a command cover-up in Haditha but call me an optimist. Maybe there's hope for the Murtha-ites after all.