Worth keeping an eye on. From Baghdad itself, the vivid, real-time blog of a young Iraqi. Then at The New Republic, a daily war diary from Iraqi exile and dissident, Kanan Makiya.
RAINES WATCH: Now that the war has begun, you can rest assured that the New York Times will go into overdrive to discredit it. Today’s offering has the following headline: “Move to War Leaves Some Feeling Alienated.” In fact, the story is about liberals in California, a somewhat odd subject for a story the day hostilities begin. Readers are hereby asked to keep an eye out for the Times’ forthcoming attempts in news stories to broaden and focus on dissent at home.