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To: KLP who wrote (102998)	6/29/2003 12:38:12 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Win, there is a difference between "news" and "opinion" coming out of Iraq, or any other place for that matter. Perhaps that is the difference. Some of us know that, some of us don't. It's a little late to be going back to this one, but sadly, I missed it the first time around and it's a little too rich on the irony front to let pass unnoticed. First, of course, there's the general irony of the news/opinion thing, given the flood of NRO / WSJ / warblogger bloviating punditry continuously dumped here by the faithful. But more specifically, on the topic of a certain local poster and the whinage in #reply-19058762 , I must again point out the amusing related example from early on showing how the press SHOULD be reporting on al Tuwaitha, at least according to several of the local true believers: #reply-18832613 #reply-18826219 #reply-18827373 #reply-18827445 #reply-18827360 #reply-18827453 #reply-18827480 #reply-18827657 #reply-18824303 #reply-18824435 #reply-18827657 . The original Carl Prine story never seems to have actually gotten enough coverage (beyond the local true believers eating it up, of course ) to be official war propaganda ; I have no idea how he cooked it up. Maybe the press was actually doing its job on that one too, and it was too bogus for the usual "high administration sources" to risk association with it, even anonymously. The looted barrels used to carry water fits in perfectly well with Rummy's general "stuff happens" plan for postwar security and occupation, while the "weaponized plutonium" story never made any sense at all. But guess which story the faithful want to hear, and guess which story the faithful don't want to hear. Allegedly, it has something to do with the difference between "news" and "opinion".