You're certainly entitled to your opinion, Joe, but I have a very difficult time believing it. It's just all too convenient, and the result of these kinds of things always ends up being an increase in the size and scope of the insurgency.

And I don't believe for a minute that Rupert Murdoch's reason for publishing those pictures was purely profit motive. That man is an empire builder if ever there was one. Without Murdoch and his FOX network's dumbing down of what passes for discourse and "news" here in the US, GWB would probably not be president right now. It's not just about money. It's also very much about power.