TODAY'S NEWS: BOY BURNED IN IRAQ -- SEVEN MONTHS AGO

What happened to five-year-old Youssif is horrible (he was doused with gasoline and set on fire by masked men in Baghdad) ... but, er, it happened in January. Why is it news today -- the day the Bush save-the-war campaign went into a much higher gear?

Is the administration going to spoon-feed the press a lot of atrocity stories between now and, oh, say, September 11, when General Petraeus delivers the administration's Iraq report? And if so, is the press just going to put them through exactly as they're received?

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UPDATE: More on this from TBogg.