What can you tell me about this PS?

[hot_pastrami]

The mass grave of children rattled me, too... more evidence that the leader we just removed from power was an unimaginable bastard.

However, the question Griff posed seems to be more about honesty in the media than whether or not the war was justified.

Disclaimer: I inherently take anything from the media with a very large grain of salt. These are people who are paid to make the news entertaining, so I am certain that occasionally they feel some spice must be added to maximize interest. This can manifest itself as small alterations or complete forgeries.

...however, despite my views on the media, upon careful examination I have to say I think this image is pretty innocent. The only alteration I can confirm in close study of it is the smudgy stuff in the top left, where presumably the BBC logo was removed. I used Paint Shop Pro to duplicate some of the supposed repeated patterns and superimpose them with translucency, and they don't <i>quite</i> match up. Close, but not quite. And in a blurred photo of similarly dressed people in a crowd, similar shapes are going to appear.

There is the dude's arm which is extra-skinny at the wrist, but there are several possible explanations.. slightly goofy print on that particular cover, or maybe the compression of the digital signal for the original TV shot caused the artifact. Or, it could be the result of altering the photo, but nothing else in the vicinity of that arm is suspect, so I doubt it... notice how the Memory Hole doesn't circle any of the stuff to either immediate side of that arm?

I may be wrong, but I think the mag is being truthful this time.