CNN doctors the news. Dan Hon has done an excellent analysis of CNN's doctoring of the transcript of Hans Blix' report to the U.N. Friday.

After grabbing the text from the two transcripts, correcting for where the BBC inserted a whole bunch of whitespace, there it was. A count in Word says that there's 866 words in one version that aren't in the other. At all. And they're, variously, about Iraqi moves towards compliance and partial refutation of the evidence presented by Powell to the UNSC.

Get that. CNN deliberately left out the things Blix said about Iraq complying with the UN resolution, and the parts where he refutes Colin Powell's evidence from the week before. Look for yourself. BBC's full version is here and CNN's fake version is here. [Ming the Mechanic]

Well I'd like to say I'm shocked by CNN doing this, but I'm really not.  And I'd like to say I'd be shocked that they won't get called to account, but I won't be.

Just been reading a little about the history of another just war to bring freedom and democracy to an oppressed people.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/wilson/wilson11.html

Which war is that?  Why, the American civil war...