[browardchad]

I still think there's more, and worse things than slanted reporting, to the CNN story. Journalists as couriers, perhaps? I also wonder why, after 12 years of pandering to Saddam, they were suddenly expelled from Baghdad. Cover?

Saddam loved to turn the knife, and once CNN got in too deep, it's easy to imagine a number of different, and ugly, scenarios.

[Steve Eisenberg]

I still think there's more, and worse things than slanted reporting, to the CNN story.

I agree. The Eason Jordan New York Times article ( The News We Kept to Ourselves) is short even for an op ed. If Mr. Jordan wanted to come reasonably clean, he would have written an article ten or twenty times as long, and offered it to the New York Times Magazine, or the Atlantic.

This isn't CNN coming clean. It's CNN knowing that the truth of their complicity was coming out and trying to get a bit in front of it with a partial revelation.

[fightinJAG]

On that point, did you see the film of the Iraqi ambassador to the UN going back to kiss CNN's reporter on each cheek in an emotional good-bye after it became clear "the game was up"?

When troll-mouthpieces of the Butcher of Baghdad are kissing your reporters and crying and saying "Richard, thank you SO much for EVERYTHING," yagottawonder.