A Marine on leave from his transport duties in Iraq goes on a shooting spree in small town California and kills a police officer. A sign of cultural decline? Of failed radical secularism? Of counterproductive liberal social programs? Certainly not. It clearly must be post-traumatic stress disorder or fear of the horrific warfare in Iraq. That is the conclusion posited by many community members and happily reprinted by the ever-professional leftist lackeys at the NY Times. They refer to the slain police officer as a "casualty of war." It’s the eighth paragraph before it is mentioned that the man had a history of gang associations, that his weapon was a banned assault rifle, and that the police he battled with suspect drugs were involved. This is what the MSM refers to as “reporting the news.”