USAT's Pathetic Pic At Story About Proposed Military Tobacco Ban

Call it "Yankee Imperialist Corrupts Impressionable Iraqi Youth":



Am I supposed to believe that USA Today had no other more relevant pictures they could have used? The fact that they went back to an AP file photo from 2007 is pretty strong evidence that USAT's page-fillers were looking to make a point.

Here are selected paragraphs from the related report by Greg Zoroya:

[These folks are being shot at, bombed and potentially the target of chemical weapons. Yeah, we've got to prevent them from smoking. {and the individual liberty for which they fight? Our accelerating rush toward collective fascism is truly alarming and will effect something of 'yours' in time if not stopped}]

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