Thoughtless for the Day

This morning I got it into my head that it might be a challenge to write a piece about former Private Steven D.Green. The gist of the post was basically going to be testing the old theory that Tragedy + Time = Comedy (Does raping and murdering a teenage girl and massacring her family in March then waiting until July to fess up to the crime result in hilarity? If so, call FOX, 'cause I've got a sitcom to pitch: think MASH meets A Clockwork Orange).
I googled "Pfc. Steven D. Green" in the hopes of finding some Wingnut Website that might be defending his alleged crime ("When our soldiers can't even get a little R&R by raping young girls , then the Terrorists have already won.") and there, sandwiched between Former GI Charged in Murder, Rape and Ex-Soldier Charged in Killing of Iraqi Family was this:

"Coalition forces keep streets of Iraq safe"? This was like finding an article from 1968 titled "Manson's Learn to Combine Work and Family". I click on the link to the article and read the piece, but it appeared that the US Army had Winston Smithed Private Green right out of the story. A little more digging around the Army's website turned up this. Just in case the Army decides to make that page disappear, here's the photo of Green:

Which is accompanied by this caption:

December 9, 2005 Pfc. Steven Green, B Co. 1-502 prepares to blast a lock off the gate of an abandoned home during a search of homes in Mullah Fayed on Dec. 2.

Damn. Could I be the only person who had noticed this? Another google search turned up only a few other folks who'd stumbled onto the "keeping Iraq safe" section of the Army's site. Thank Gawd fer the Internets!