Like a lot of people, I've had trouble following the twists and turns of logic in media coverage of the war in Iraq. But maybe it's starting to make sense. Sort of.

Of course four years ago, during the last phase of agenda-building for the invasion, a key message was clear: Iraq, under its despotic dictator Saddam Hussein, menaced the region and the world. Most of all, the tyrant was said to be brandishing weapons of mass destruction.

Now, with the fifth year of the war set to b ...

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