Terrorism pure and simple
Three versions of the news:

I turned on CNN briefly this afternoon and caught their military expert,
General Barry McCaffrey (US Army, ret.) answering questions about war
strategy from a CNN anchor in a distinctly belligerent tone to interspersed
clips of convoys and American foot soldiers moving through blowing sand.
Here are a few phrases I managed to jot down: When asked about "the battle
for Baghdad," he said, "We gotta get into town, bust their chops, and get
outta there." And a little later he asked rhetorically, "Do you bust in
there, take them down, or do you end up in a 90-day stand-off?" On the
subject of sand storms grounding planes, he commented, "But thank God for
the US artillery. without that we'd be in trouble out there." And so on and
so forth, his face perched on a red (and orange lettered) "operation IRAQI
FREEDOM."

Here, on the other hand, is a telegraphic private note to a friend of mine
from a Brit reporter, which in a few well-chosen words offers a distinctly
more realistic vision of this war as it's unfolding: "had a hairy weekend in
southern iraq since last i messaged. the south which was supposed to hate
saddam has turned out not to be very welcoming. terry lloyd was killed just
along the road from me on Saturday. horrible stuff. and all the iraqis we
met were asking for water because their supply had been cut."

To read a more formal version of this
http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?emx=x&pidQ8