Haditha Hoax?

The American Thinker is thinking so:

Evidence accumulates of a hoax in Haditha. The weblog Sweetness & Light has done an estimable service gathering together the articles which cast substantial doubt on the charge of a massacre of civilians at Haditha . Because the blog is too busy gathering and fisking the news, I offered and the publisher accepted my offer to put what he has uncovered in a narrative form.

Having done so, I can tell you that the story has a whiff of yet another mediagenic scandal like the TANG memos or the Plame “outing.” While the Marines quite correctly will not comment on the case pending the outcome of their investigation, I am not bound by those rules, and I will sum up the story for you.

And so he does, go read the rest. 

Of course all of sound mind and reason are hoping that it turns out to be a hoax.  For two reasons, one more obvious than the other (perhaps).

1)  The stain on the Marine Corp would be washed away like John Murtha's credibility.

2)  The stain on the MSM would be set in like blueberries on a Tommy Bahama shirt.

I hope the American Thinker is correct.  And I hope the piece isn't simply wishful thinking.

Time will tell.

H/T PJMedia.