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Americans have known for some time that the stories of Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman, the two most famous faces of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, were embellished by the Pentagon. Even so, details revealed at congressional hearings this week were shocking.

The Navy wants to bestow the World War II battleship USS Iowa on San Francisco's port. But the city's board of supervisors voted 8-3 to spurn the ship, saying they don't want a ship from a military in which openly gay men and women cannot serve. They also cited opposition to the Iraq war, which city voters condemned in a 2004 ballot question.

The Navy, seeking a greater role as the United States wages wars far inland, is pushing an expensive, experimental destroyer it says will be able to bomb targets well away from shore.

Some critics, even in the military, say bringing home lost troops from past wars is seen as good news, while bringing home the dead from Iraq is bad news.