The Iraq Follies

Commentary: Eighteen things you've already forgotten about the media's flawed coverage of Iraq

O'Reilly said, "If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation; I will not trust the Bush administration again, all right?"

Phil Donahue

"presents a difficult public face for NBC in a time of war.... At the same time our competitors are waving the flag at every opportunity."

MSNBC's

"We're all neocons now."

"I'm waiting to hear the words 'I was wrong' from some of the world's most elite journalists, politicians, and Hollywood types."

New York Times

"As far as I am concerned, we do not need to find any weapons of mass destruction to justify this war.... Mr. Bush doesn't owe the world any explanation for missing chemical weapons."

Bush's comedy routine

joked, "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere...Nope, no weapons over there...Maybe under here?"

Petraeus goes out

in an unarmed Humvee