I was very taken by a BBC 2 television documentary last week which featured interviews with Kurdish people. In particular, one elderly gentleman said, "Even if we were to lose half of our population and I were to be one of them, I would welcome that so as the other half could live in peace and not under the barbaric rule of Saddam Hussein." We cannot forget the 11 year old child who waved at American troops and was hanged within one hour for doing so. We cannot forget either the people trying to leave Basra who were mortared by their own troops. We can be selective and some may say that is western propaganda and is not true. However, the information war is part of the conflict and media input is used as a tool of war. The new era of embedded journalists is part of that tool. It will be left to historians to decide in future who was right or wrong.