REALITY CHECK

First time I’ve used that cliché, but today it fits: people are starting to get the news about how bad things actually are in Iraq

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A50259-2004Sep25?language=printer
“Less than four months before planned national elections in Iraq, attacks against U.S. troops, Iraqi security forces and private contractors number in the dozens each day and