Cursor's Media Patrol - 03/03/06

As U.S. officials leak intelligence indicating that al-Qaeda in Iraq is plotting a spectacular 'Big Bang,' Dahr Jamail notes the "widespread belief ... that U.S. covert operations were behind the bombing" of the Golden Mosque, and cites an Arab News editorial suggesting that civil war "could be the Bush ticket out of the Iraq debacle."

A firedoglake take on Murray Waas's 'What Bush was told about Iraq,' concludes that either the president "knew and lied" or "he doesn't bother doing his job," and an NBC report on a court filing raises the question: 'Did Bob Woodward record key Plame case conversation?'

As "Bush fatigue" sets in, and even staged military events are said to "look more like Saddam firing his rifle off the balcony of his palace," another conservative bails on Iraq.