The NY Times just posted a story on their website that is either the biggest story since Watergate or the final deathblow for their claims to objectivity - Iraq Said to Have Tried to Reach Last-Minute Deal to Avert War

"As American soldiers massed on the Iraqi border in March and diplomats argued about war, an influential adviser to the Pentagon received a secret message from a Lebanese-American businessman: Saddam Hussein wanted to make a deal.

Iraqi officials, including the chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, had told the businessman that they wanted Washington to know that Iraq no longer had weapons of mass destruction, and they offered to allow American troops and experts to conduct a search. The businessman said in an interview that the Iraqis also offered to hand over a man accused of being involved in the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 who was being held in Baghdad. At one point, he said, the Iraqis pledged to hold elections."

Is this for real? If it is then it's an incredible cover-up. If it's not, then it's the biggest piece of political propaganda ever to appear in the "news" section of a major newspaper.

I guess we'll see tomorrow.