Yesterday President Bush called the upcoming Iraqi elecitions "a grand moment in Iraqi history."
Yesterday the Albuquerque Journal headline "Iraq Nears Crossroads" ran on page one over a big color photo from Basra.
The President's statement was his opinion.
The Journal's headline - while not unreasonable - was a conclusion nevertheless and a debatable conclusion. We will know some day if the Iraqi elections are a crossroads, but we sure don't know that now. All we know is that Bush wants us to think so.
(Mind you, I suspect he will be correct, in retrospect. The voting may well be a big step toward what the White House is praying for - an Iraqi government that will ask us to leave.)
But when he or she wrote it, the writer jumped to a conclusion.