[conservatism_IS_compassion]

There is corruption in our business. We need to get back to basics. This war should be studied and talked about. In the run up to this war, to my mind, there was a gross abdication of responsibility. You have to be ready to listen to whispers.

The First Amendment assigns the responsibility for communication strictly to the reader/listener. It's caveat lector--let the reader beware, for the government is forbidden to sort things out and censor the unreliable.

[aculeus]

It's caveat lector--let the reader beware, for the government is forbidden to sort things out and censor the unreliable.

In this case government (Saddam's) was censoring ... with the cooperation of major Western journalists.

The mission: find out who they were.