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World Exclusive : Daily Mail told the truth

I couldn't help but think how appropriate it was for the Daily Mirror to run a front page article claiming to be a world exclusive on this particular subject. They're the only ones to know it, and it's the first time ever, so it's extremely noteworthy : they actually told the truth.

Of course that's not what they meant - the "exclusive" in question actually refers to the previous story regarding UK troops and the torture in Iraq debacle, but the Freudian formatting seemed inspired by divine irony.

It still nauseates me when the fact that this is an exclusive, and the fact that their paper is printing the story, are facts that rank (as far as they're concerned) alongside the story facts themselves. The horror of our troops sinking so low is terribly undermining to the reconstruction efforts, is likely to get in the way of Iraqi development and self-government, and is far more important than their pathetic rag, and they would be doing the world a favour if they could pass the story on to papers capable of writing a thoughtful, insightful and comprehensive editorial on the subject as opposed to a paper that wallows in the glory of having been first to press with so unhappy a story.