Yesterday Chris Matthews interviewed Tony Lagouranis, a former U.S. army interrogator in Iraq. Lagouranis has been making the rounds on all the left-wing media outlets peddling his story of the U.S. military as out of control torturers.

In the interview, Lagouranis smears the 24^th Marines and its commanding officer, Colonel Ron Johnson, saying the Marines were “consistently” punching, kicking, and breaking subdued prisoners’ bones. He goes on to say he knows this to be true from talking with the prisoners and from his own observations, though he concedes “I never saw this.”

Lagouranis then goes on to outline some of the methods the Marines would use on captured insurgents:

We might take this prisoner and throw him into a shipping container with loud music and strobe lights so that he couldn‘t sleep and was disoriented.  Force him to stand, kneel, or other difficult positions.  We wouldn‘t allow him to sleep.  We wouldn‘t allow him regular meals.  We‘d feed him, but not at regular intervals so he would become more disoriented.  And we would keep him in the cold.

Throughout the interview, Matthews sympathizes with the prisoners and works with Lagouranis to paint our troops as the bad guys. In talking about a prisoner who had a dog put in front of him, Matthews says: “look at the poor guy‘s face….. he’s scared to death that dog is going to bite his nose off..."

Perhaps Chris Matthews doesn’t care about his ratings, but if he does, someone should tell him that the Cindy Sheehan moonbat crowd who think our troops are oppressors and the bad guys only out for oil represent less than 10% of the population.

The left just does not get it that we are at war. Can you imagine an interview of an ex-interrogator during WWII and the announcer saying: look at that poor Nazi’s face....he’s terrified!

None of this is to excuse conduct that is unbecoming of the U.S. military, but the media who hate this war continually misrepresent the degree to which this out of bounds behavior takes place, unfairly tarring our men and women who are fighting every day for our freedom.

It’s disgraceful, and the only good thing is if Matthews keeps up this kind of anti-military propaganda, he won’t have a program much longer. MSNBC isn’t funded by George Soros or subsidized by the government.