A cogent and satisfying read. Well done! Yesterday on one of Fox's live segments, the discussion was about the Iraqi terrorists' awareness, and use of, our mainstream media. It was said that when our troops secured one particular safe house they found the TV tuned into CNN, and the front page of the NY Times taped to a computer monitor.
Don't forget that the president of CNN (Eason Jordan?) admitted that his network had been complicit in manufacturing stories favorable to the former Iraqi regime.
They are the same people who willingly agreed to the constraints imposed upon their reporters freedom of movement, when they decided to truckle under the pressures exerted by "El Hefe."