WHAT’S GOING ON INSIDE THE IRAQI HIGH COMMAND? Austin Bay uses his imagination.

Meanwhile Jonathan Last Fisks the foreign press at CentCom, employing the brutal technique of reprinting some of their questions, verbatim. Conclusion:

On the one hand, it’s frightening to realize that the global media operate on a professional level roughly equivalent to a bad college paper. But on the other hand, it’s a little bit liberating: After all, with press like this, no wonder the rest of the world hates us–America really is besieged by a vast, left-wing conspiracy.

But not a terribly bright one.

UPDATE: A reader emails: “As my father would say, it’s more of a half-vast left-wing conspiracy.”