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There is absolutely nothing John Manley or Paul Martin could say today that will change what they did and said yesterday.

Chrétien, the Canadian mouth that squeaks has found his legacy.

To read about it in the French and English news, it's almost as if it's no big deal. What's TEN BILLION DOLLARS amongst friends?

"Why should we go to war against the Arabs since they never did anything to us".

Unlike 1991, when Arnett broadcast from one single rooftop, far from the action, we now have the embedded journalists who are bringing the war to us up close and personal.

I have written in the recent past, that the first victory of this war is journalistic integrity. And I am now writing that one of the first defeats in this war, belongs to the totally irrelevant "talking heads".

Firefights or skirmishes are "major" battles. Five casualties are "many" casualties, thugs and murderers are "fedayeem" or "irregulars." And the beat goes on.

When you listen to the other journalists, all you hear is how badly the coalition is doing:

Blair is willing to sacrifice Israel as a show to the Arab world that he is even-handed. And that the victory over Saddam must carry some quid-pro-quo. Israel is the quid-pro-quo.

To lie so blatantly today, is not nearly as easy a proposition as it was even during the first Gulf War.