Read these headlines

And try to guess whom the NYTimes is supporting:

� 90 Day Media Strategy by Bush's Aides to Define Kerry

� Shirts for Bush Campaign Made in Myanmar

� Kerry's Record on the Military

� Clinton Aides Plan to Tell Panel of Warning Bush Team on Qaeda

The one on Kerry's defense voting record basically says everybody was doing it when the Cold War ended. "Mr. Kerry, like most of his colleagues, went along. But he also occasionally went further than the majority of his party." That's the third paragraph, following the news that after the end of the Cold War the Bush administration began to draw down deployments. Well, that disposes of any claims that Kerry is weak on defense, unless you read that last clause and go on.

The Shirts story is about "up to 10" (you read it right) fleece pullovers sold on by a Bush Campaign merchandiser which turned out to have been made in Myanmar, which is subject to an embargo, but apparently got here before it took effect. That's a major story, all right.

Fortunately the next item down suggests that the strategy behind overthrowing Saddam is working:

A year ago, it would have been inconceivable for a citizen of Syria, run by the Baath Party of President Bashar al-Assad, to make a documentary film with the working title, "Fifteen Reasons Why I Hate the Baath."

Yet watching the overthrow of Saddam Hussein across the border in Iraq prompted Omar Amiralay to do just that. "It gave me the courage to do it," he said.

So, I guess we can chalk up Ghadaffi's WMD and now stirrings of free speech in Syria to the Bush policy. How did the editors let that slip through?