The media’s anti-war peace offensive

Andrew Sullivan on what the press isn’t telling us about the situation in Iraq. There is good reason to believe that things are going much better than is being reported. Indeed, that should be the strong presumption, given the mainstream media’s horrendous coverage of the war itself. But the things that are important in the short-term — finding WMD and avoiding American loss of life — genuinely are not going well right now.

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