PM - I am now reading Reuters on this ... The site you are refrring to is most definitely anti-US ... PLEASE people, no "Independent UK" ... or any other idealogue based "news organizations" ... Reuters is not exactly pro-US, and their take is quite different.

Personally, I will go on record that the Independent UK is NOT a credible source of news.

As for my "news report" .... it was tongue in cheek, as a look at how today's media WOULD have reported the Civil War... and it smacks of a lot of truth...