[HAL9000]

I'd say he's a damn good journalist. Specifically, how is he "self-rightous and self-serving"?

He will probably win his third Pulitzer Prize for this article, and his earlier one - "How Many People has Saddam Hussein Killed?"

[68skylark]

I am one of those who is glad to have a vivid accounts from Iraq, like this one from John Burns.

But I have to agree with the theme of some other people here -- it seems to me like the NY Times is really getting on the anti-Saddam bandwagon only now that the regime is gone.

I think it's fair to ask what they knew about Iraq in the months before the war started. I'm sorry to say that I bet they knew a lot more than they printed, and I suspect they held back information only because of their anti-Bush animus.

Is that a fair suspicion?