WILL DOWD CORRECT?

We know there are no fact-checkers for MoDo’s columns. But I just want to put in a pitch for the following to be corrected:

The president has tried to shake off the curse with a P.R. push to circumvent the national media and get smaller news outlets to do sunny stories about Iraq. The P.R. campaign shamelessly included bogus cheerful form letters sent to newspapers, supposedly written by soldiers in Iraq. It also entailed sweetening up the official Web site of the United States Central Command. Until recently, the site offered a mix of upbeat stories and accounts of casualties and setbacks. Now it’s a litany of smiley postings, like “Soldiers host orphans in Mosul” and “Ninevah Province schools benefit from seized Iraqi assets.” You have to go to a different page for casualty reports.

The assertion here is that the president himself coordinated the mass-mailings from troops. From everything I have read and seen, this was a one-off idea from a commander in the field and there is no evidence that the White House had anything to do with it. Yet from the full context of the quote, Dowd is specifically making that assertion. It’s untrue. She or the New York Times must surely correct. Or will they let her off yet one more time?