This Is The Story You Tell

Utterly unsurprising, but if washingtonpost.com did have an ombudsman, this is the kind of thing I'd be pointing out to her.

You can highlight the the cost of war with this absurdly opinionated lede by Daniela Deane:

President Bush today stood by his decision nearly three years ago to invade Iraq, despite the fact that some 30,000 Iraqis and more than 2,000 U.S. troops have been killed and he expects the violence to continue even after the country holds parliamentary elections this week....

Or you can acknowledge the existence of an amazing election, though even there, as usual, one cannot get through the first graf without but but but...