I'm watching Rumsfeld and Myers jousting with the press again about whether the war plan is a failure or not. Last night, Mara Liasson complained that the Pentagon is responding too much to press criticism, but this is a press conference, and when the only questions you get are about whose plan this was, and whether Rumsfeld is distancing himself from it, and whether there is a big split in the Pentagon over Rumsfeld's policies, and yadda, yadda, yadda, what else can they talk about?
What is wrong with the press? They seem to have forgotten that we're in a war over there and focus only on Pentagon gossip. In twelve days, we have taken control of the majority of the country, with very few casualties, yet all they can talk about is the plan? How about covering the news?

Myers got a little irritable and his comment that "reporters have to be fair and balanced," will no doubt soon show up in Fox News Channel promos.

Apparently, Geraldo may yet lose his embedded status for drawing a sketch in the sand which might have been a violation of the rules. MSNBC reported that he had been yanked yesterday just before he filed a new report from the 101st Airborn. "So we had to fire Peter Arnett. FNC has Geraldo Rivera." Sheesh!

Fred Barnes said that if Rivera is getting in the way, they should yank him, and it wouldn't hurt my feelings either, but Geraldo's faux pas is not nearly equivalent to going on Iraqi state TV and opining that the American's war plan has failed and they are in disarray.

Also, it turns out that the "martyr" who blew himself up and killed four marines, was induced to do so by threats against his family. The seven women who were killed by our troops when they drove into a checkpoint without stopping, were coerced, according to Shi'ite leaders.

Saddam was supposed to give a speech to the nation today, but didn't show. Some underling came on and read an hysterical call to war, "Kill, Kill, Kill!", supposedly from Saddam. I'm guessing that wherever Bin Laden is, Saddam is there too.