This morning, I condemned CBS News here. Their tributes to American soldiers who have fallen in Iraq are appeasement, I said, of the White House. But there is another way to view those inserts in the CBS Evening News.
"That drives the White House crazy," said an old buddy in the news business. His view is that Bush and friends hate it when anybody puts a face on the young men and women losing their lives in Vietnam.
And when the honors for the victims come wrapped in the flag - the way Dan Rather is doing it - that bugs the White House no end, he said.
He may be right. I hope so.
Meanwhile, my friend, who is in a position to know, tells me there is real anger in the Army at George W. Bush and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld.
A lot of it, he says, is because DOD sent the troops to Iraq with inadequate equipment.
I don't know how much credence to put in my friend's views. But it was nice to get a whiff of something positive.