MEDIA BRANDS: Washington, not a trigger-happy media, is at fault for inaccurate military reports from Iraq

The phrase "the fog of war" is typically trotted out to describe the inherently chaotic nature of battle that leads to friendly fire accidents as well as the deaths of innocents. One of the lessons of the war in Iraq is just how far that fog can creep, and judging how the military handled communications for the November 23 death of two soldiers in Mosul, the haze has made it all the way to Washington.