http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2842.htm

exactly what i was trying to tell friends of mine earlier. a few thousand (if it was that many) people celebrating the toppling of a statue doesn't really reflect the 8 million or so that live in Baghdad does it?

I've read many other reports from indy media guys who have photos of how the food distributions were media events which were oddly staged. Strange stuff man.

Then you come across Op-Ed pieces like this one. [nytimes reg required]

it's so impossible to get a clear picture of what's really going on. It's all just too huge to break down into black and white.