Buchanan, Dowd, John Paul II, Natalie Maines....

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Back Off, Syria and Iran!

I give the Bush administration credit for their spinning skills. The tone of the coverage has suggested American support for the Iraq invasion, but Pat Buchanan and Maureen Dowd are both against it (and, thank you Michael Moore, the Pope and the Dixie Chicks, as well). I think there's a tendency to conjoin support for the troops with support for the administration, which is just silly.

I have tremendous faith in the military's capabilities to achieve a clearly stated administration objective. I have zero faith in the current administration's ability to choose between peaceful and military alternatives and clearly state an objective.

If it turns out that the military was overruled on the necessary forces to get the administration's job done, we need regime change at home. Nineteen months and counting....

Also:

15 Stories They've Already Bungled

Greg Mitchell of Editor and Publisher (one of the leading magazines for journalists) critiques the fog of war passing for reporting, and notes that 14 times out of 15 so far, the stories have been reported in a way that favors the US/UK/Aussie invasion.