Nevermind the Newsweek retraction. The real story is this: Thanks to Bush and his wonderful stewardship of Abu Ghraib prison, and his depressingly dim "with us or against us" mentality, and his whole cast of trigger happy, memo-writing, WMD scare-mongering, Bolton nominating characters- the real problem is that America's diminshed credibility and morally vacuous leadership make this kind of thing believable.
This is not a time for searching into the depths of the press to see what is wrong with it.
It is this administration which needs to be examined. Sadly, this question will never be asked- it will never be put to George W. Bush- not in the coming days, weeks, months, or even years. Maybe never.
But that IS the question here.
That is the real story.
Why do they hate us?.... It could never be more obvious.