[lexington minuteman 1775]

OK....CNN has breaking news that we might attack this place and Peter Jennings is reporting the attack is off? what is this all about?

[alloysteel]

I think we just saw a little disinformation put on the real state of affairs in our conflict with Baghdad and Saddam Hussein. The "unreliable" networks and cable shows are allowed to pick up these "leaks" in what seems to be a job of planting various stories, while the real action is going on elsewhere. I have no way of verifying what has gone on and what is being reported is anywhere near the reality of the situation. It may be instructive to go back to the build-up in England prior to D-Day 1944, and the actual launch of the invasion. Hitler knew it was coming, Rommel knew it was coming, but neither knew just when or where, diverting and holding positions far from the actual strike point, and unable to respond quickly enough when the invasion came, thinking Normandy was, at first, only a diversion. The front has already been moving steadily in Iraq, just that the politically unreliable reporters have not been advised of the true nature of what we are doing there.

[justshe]

I am hoping extremely successful psy ops.

[justshe]

~~~~OK....CNN has breaking news that we might attack this place and Peter Jennings is reporting the attack is off? what is this all about? ~~~~

I also wouldn't put it past CNN to report, as breaking news, that we ARE going to attack this place....and then do another BREAKING NEWS that 'cooler heads' have talked GW out of it.

[mhking]

OK....CNN has breaking news that we might attack this place and Peter Jennings is reporting the attack is off? what is this all about?

Par for the course - I had the local news on, and when they went to WNT, PJ practically looked like he was jumping up and down in his seat.

[fone]

Consider the source(s). Neither CNN nor ABC
knows what the * they are talking about. Someone probably put a virus in the teleprompter, and Lord knows they have little comprehension of reality, certainly not enough to determine that what they report is either truthful or coherent.