A Silly Instapundit/Hewitt Post

IS THE WASHINGTON POST making up news? asks Glenn Reynolds.

No.

Well, Howard Kurtz is misrepresenting Joe Wilson's Niger findings, but that's not what he means. Glenn points to Hugh Hewitt, citing this story today and this line:

"Still, the profile of the suspects suggested by investigators  fit long-standing warnings by security experts that  the greatest potential threat to Britain could come  from second-generation Muslims, born here but alienated from British society and perhaps from their own families, and inflamed by Britain's participation  in the Iraq war."            

There is no evidence offered for this astonishing assertion that  the Iraq war has anything to do with the massacre.  Zero!  And none is needed for the true-believers in the MSM. Is this "reporting?" Or cheerleading for an                           alternative reality where writers feel free to ascribe to murderers their motives? 

The war in Iraq has zero--Zero!--to do with the terrorist attacks in London. Uh-huh.

Over-reaching doesn't help when criticizing media mishaps. Of course the war against terrorists in Iraq is part of the crazy internatoinal jihadist decapitation suicide-bombing complex. Why should a bunch of murderers in London travel all the way to Baghdad when they can pollute their very own neighborhoods with the same insanity? It's a shorter trip!

Basically they want to kill all infidels everywhere. The war in Iraq might just possibly tick off similarly inclined murderers in London. That doesn't mean you retreat from the main Iraqi battlefield, but high dudgeon over the obvious isn't very productive either.