Originally Posted by host

reconmike...please....share with me how you filter out fact from fiction...how you decide what to embrace and repeat, vs. what info you discard and what info you grow skeptical about? What would prompt you to believe anything that the U.S. Military "discloses", or that comes from the U.S. executive branch?

Why are you so forgiving of folks who have squandered their credibilty? Have they rehabilitated themselves, in your eyes, or have you never waivered in your acceptance of what they've told you for the last 5-1/2 years. I'm asking you these questions because your post seemed to be the best example of someone who has the least, or no doubts.

Do you think that Dexter Filkins added the line below because he might have still been embarassed that the U.S. military, in April was caught, through it's own bungled display of a slide presentation to the media, filtering propaganda about Zarqawi, specifically to Filkins, who then obediently published it on the front page of the NY Times, without noting his own skepticism?

Look at the "face" released by our military, mike....freshly "bombed" and washed clean for the cameras with ivory soap. More sanitzed BS from our own version of Big Bro, IMO....