Michael Barone

On the Iraq War

"Then suddenly, as the pictures of the statue being pulled down in Baghdad flashed on Al-Jazeera, it became clear that all these things were lies. Iraqis hated Saddam. There would be no titanic battle of Baghdad. As the story of the coalition victory unfolded, it became clear that the Arab media had not just gotten a few facts wrong; the picture of the world it had presented was utterly inconsistent with reality." ("Statues fall, minds change," 5/18/2003) [1]