Get Out Now, Before We Are Thrown Out - by John Pilger:

"A few weeks ago, Rick Mercier, a young columnist for the Free-Lance Star, a small paper in Virginia, did what no other journalist has done this past year. He apologized to his readers for the travesty of the reporting of events leading to the attack on Iraq. 'Sorry we let unsubstantiated claims drive our coverage,' he wrote. 'Sorry we let a band of self-serving Iraqi defectors make fools of us. Sorry we fell for Colin Powell's performance at the United Nations... Maybe we'll do a better job next war.'

Well done, Rick Mercier. But listen to the silence of your colleagues on both sides of the Atlantic... "