David Kay, head of the Iraq Survey Group, is amazed at the fact that his findings of Iraqi WMD materials have not been reported in the US press, wth the American public merely being told that he hadn't found any actual WMD. He might be even more stunned to discover exactly the same phenomenon in Britain. The published media have quite simply turned themselves into an enemy of truth and a servant of propaganda over the Iraq war.

If they could actually bring themselves to acknowledge the words on the page of Kay's report, rather than filtering them though a prism of hysterical anti-war prejudice that somehow transforms a discovery of clandestine programmes into a non-discovery, they might also care to reflect that their hero Hans Blix -- he of the theory that Saddam pretended he still had stuff he had actually destroyed, just so the allies could come and bomb his regime to bits -- somehow managed to miss what Kay has found.