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"...how many major news organizations didn't have people inside Iraq? Even Fox did. What if they're all compromised this way?..."

Galahad (of the excellent name) you are correct, Sir. I'm ready to believe CNN might be worse than the rest, but I'm also ready to believe its sins may only be among those of many others. And I think this author should be acknowledged for speaking the truth, even at this too late date.

All this, all this horror that will now be revealed will show to all who can think for themselves that Bush, and Blair, were not b-s-ing anyone.

We live in a fallen world, so far fallen from perfection and even, often, good, that to have forthright men like Bush and Blair in the lead is as good as we are going to do sometimes.

Most of the folks in the West won't soon slip back into the haze of celebrity worship we were lately in. Sure, sure, people will go on with their own personal lives, but that is all the more reason why LEADERSHIP is important.

And Freerepublic is a big part of what is going to change this world. This is the information age, that is really the great change. As great as the Industrial Revolution, as great as the Renaissance. No one knows where it is going to take all of us; but is it going to take all of us somewhere we've never been before. And in the Information Age, it'll be to the good to get Truth out there, in front.

And I think this author should be acknowledged for speaking the truth, even at this too late date.

Not until he admits that he was morally and professionally wrong to spend thirteen years "lobby[ing] the government to keep CNN's Baghdad bureau open"; that he should have pulled all CNN people out of Baghdad the moment it became clear that their presence was actually preventing CNN from reporting the truth. At that point, I'll be willing to give him some credit. Until then, he seems to want sympathy because he feels so bad about all the deaths he caused, and all the Ba'athist coverups in which he was complicit without admitting that he shouldn't have done it.