>I really tried watching Foxnews - and couldn't put anything together, except that they will always have more coverage on so-called sports than on the affairs of the whole rest of the world, and then all that put together will be shorter than the announcements, ads and opening/closing credits. And Fox is surely not an independent news publisher - in my opinion.

I am not a big fan of FoxNews. I think of the major news stations here in the U.S., their coverage was the most biased. However, their imbedded reporters were great. I did not care for the rest of their coverage. But the article I cited on their website is directly from Colin Powell's presentation.

>Just a counter-quote:
>"Another buried A13 article, by Eric Schmitt, began thus: "Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld suggested publicly for the first time yesterday that Iraq might have destroyed chemical and biological weapons before the war there." A typical American news junkie might consider this stunning revelation, coming after repeated Administration claims of the contrary, front-page news. RUMSFELD ADMITS: WE LIED in 72-point type sounds about right, coupled with a lead editorial calling for Bush's impeachment--but not to Schmitt's editors."

I am assuming you are referring to this article:

http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~1419027,00.html

When are where did the administration claim that Iraq would not destroy their WMDs before the war started? How is it inconceivable that they would do that?

A glaring failure of logic is the following:

"They don't have a good explanation, and therefore are trying to come up with as long a list as possible," said Joseph Cirincione, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. "But it's impossible to destroy or hide the quantities the administration said they had without our noticing it."

As Hans Blix pointed out, the Iraqis had tons of anthrax and VX. The Iraqis claimed that they destroyed it, yet provided Blix with no documentation of that. Blix obviously did not know, nor believe, that the WMDs were destroyed.

>But then, you've already written off my sources as unreliable, and I have yours. As our writer Milorad Pavich wrote in "The Dictionary of Khazars", "The truth is but a trick".