Doesn't it hurt when your pants are on fire like that?

Remember last week when it appeared a US unit in Afghanistan shot up everything in sight after they were attacked, and afterwards, the soldiers on the scene deleted photos from a number of news photographers?

Well, the military has issued an explanation.

The U.S. military asserted that an American soldier was justified in erasing journalists' footage of the aftermath of a suicide bombing and shooting in Afghanistan last week, saying publication could have compromised a military investigation and led to false public conclusions.....

He added that photographs or video taken by "untrained people" might "capture visual details that are not as they originally were."

Right.