[tomahawk]

It is encouraging, but it's contrary to what the New York Times, ABC and the other Nattering Nabobs of Negativism are telling us.

[rollin]

So why do you waste your time listening to them?

[cyncooper]

It is encouraging, but it's contrary to what the New York Times, ABC and the other Nattering Nabobs of Negativism are telling us.

Yes. Actually there have been stories here and there all along. The regular press types that inhabit the briefings refuse to believe it. They scorn the administration for saying the Iraqi people want to be liberated. Some have come close to mocking the notion in the briefings. It's those that encounter these people that tell the stories, and why Torie felt compelled to show that story of the woman who was tortured to the press today. I missed the actual briefing, but from what I saw, the reporters did not seem moved.