Just commenting on the Newstatesman piece about howThe Times ignores Mark Thompson's criticisms of Sky - The Times generally being considered a "proper" newspaper and thus generally above such editorial tinkering with content.

There is also "Sky News paper round up: Wot no Guardian?" that someone blogged about Sky News not showing the Guardians front page when doing its paper review since it featured a front page criticising Rupert Murdoch.

nb I don't wear underwear on the outside of my clothes either. Atleast not intentionally.

One was called David, the other Michael.

They were dying of hunger and thirst, when they suddenly and unexpectedly came upon an oasis, with what looked like an emirate with a mosque in the middle.

David said to Michael, "look, lets pretend we're Muslims, otherwise we won't get any food or drink. I'm going to call myself Mohammed."

Michael refused to change his name, he said: "My name is Michael and i won't pretend to be someone else."

The Imam of the mosque received both well and asked them their names. David said "My name is Mohammed" and Michael replied, "My name is Michael".

At the Editors request, anonymous posters can post again, some ip addresses and email addresses I was blocking have been unblocked too.

Thatisall.

When listening to the Let's Talk show on the Muslim World, the guest on the show mentioned how the US was leaving Iraq in defeat and other Muslims seems to be of the same view too...

but is that not foolish to think the US is leaving in failure and instead never got exactly what it went?

Firstly its not a withdrawal (as there are still 50,000 troops there and some permanent bases have been built...) and secondlt, I would question wether it really is defeat too.

To assume that it is losing in failure, you have to assume or accept that America is not getting exactly what it wanted in Iraq - a state of general chaos.