Whatever your sentiments about the ...

Whatever your sentiments about the war in Iraq, I suspect that principally if not all of us have been transfixed with the coverage of the conflict. Instant reporting of the horrors as well as the heroics have splashed across newspapers, magazines, and forward television and computer screens during the past not many weeks.

The surreal images of Saddam Hussein's statue being dragged down, followed later by means of free-for-all looting relayed more about what's been going upon in Iraq than any scripted freshs reports from "embedded" reporters.

During these past weeks when