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Sunday August 3rd, 2003

A homemade bomb exploded under a convoy Saturday morning, killing two American soldiers and their interpreter, and a grenade attack on Friday night left another American dead, military officials said.

Stripped of his uniform and laid flat on his back in a first-aid tent, a wounded Army engineer fixed his wide, unblinking eyes on a flimsy overhead tarp that shielded him from the desert sun.

Shortly after his now-discredited report that Saddam Hussein was seeking to buy uranium in Africa, President Bush asserted in his State of the Union address that ''evidence from intelligence sources, secret conversations, and statements by people now in custody reveal that Saddam Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including members of Al Qaeda.''

The U.S. Army has dispatched investigative medical teams to Iraq and Germany to look into an unusually large number of cases of pneumonia that have affected at least 100 U.S. troops deployed in and around Iraq and left two of them dead, Pentagon officials said Saturday, August 2.

The White House sets the tone and the media echo a line that celebrates the victimhood of the invader and the evil of the Iraqis. And then London takes its cue.

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