Today the New York Times fronts above the fold a picture of two dead, burned American civilians hanging from a Euphrates River bridge. This morning CNN actually showed video of American soldiers being chased by a mob and being pelted with bricks, rocks and, in one, a Iraqi swinging a club. It also showed soldiers pushing Iraqis and threatening them with guns. In more video, they showed an American soldier being treated and led from a truck with a bandage covering both eyes.

This is a major shift in news coverage by the American media. They have not been showing conflict at all. With the exception of the deaths announced, there has been no record for the American public that our presence in Iraq is nothing more than building schools, setting up a democracy, etc.

But George Bush's War is more than that, and unfortunately, extreme examples like yesterday's attacks has finally brought that to light. Will the media begin giving more than just reporting the news releases from the military in Iraq? Will they get back in the field and report the war? We all know that the images coming back from Vietnam finally convinced the American public that the Johnson administration had been lying all those many years. Is this the beginning of seeing a similar campaign? Will people finally get the point - George Bush and his administration is the largest group of liars we have seen since the Nixon administration.

The 2004 presidential vote is as important to this nation as was the 1968. I hope it works out a little better than that '68 one. We traded Johnson for Nixon (sorry Hubie, but you were just as much of the problem as Johnson). It was a bad exchange.