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(On Screen): To no one's great surprise, Reuters is doing its best to slant the news from Iraq to make it all look as bad for American as they reasonably can. I generally use this page at ABC to look for wire reports, because they run both AP and Reuters. And when both of them cover the same story, I can usually tell which one is which from the way the headlines are written.

I just noticed this story, which has the following line in it:

Sabotage of Iraq's oil infrastructure by loyalists to Saddam Hussein is the worst nightmare of Washington, which has vowed to secure the country's oil wealth for Iraq's citizens.

Horseshit. It isn't even remotely the worst nightmare – unless you really think "it's all about oooiiil!"