Tim Goodman writing in the San Francisco Chronicle about the ambiguous situation facing NBC with its made-for--TV movie about "saving Private Jessica Lynch" may have captured the essence of why the average American is so willing to swallow the Bush Administration lies about the Iraq "war" and the news stories that have emerged, especially in the foreign press, showing many of the tales told by Bush, his pals and the crew at the Pentagon to be utter fabrications.

The American public has shown little interest in those stories. It wants a feel-good tearjerker, not a feel-used ethics inquiry.

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