It's Who? You Know.

"So, wait a minute," CBS reporter Jim Axelrod said. "So 'dunk in the water' means what? We have a pool now at Guantanamo and they go swimming?"

"You doing stand-up?" Snow asked.

"Saying that Vice President Cheney doesn't make mistakes like this," said ABC's Ann Compton , doesn't quite wash. "He did go up and curse a senator to his face on the Senate floor and accidentally shot his friend. So he's not perfect," she noted.

"Not germane," Snow said.

It is clear from the transcript that the interviewer brought up "dunking" in a discussion about terrorism and questioning techniques.

Perhaps Cheney thought he was talking about those county-fair water tanks: five tickets for $10, throw the ball, hit the target, and the person sitting above drops into the water?

As Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters: "Back off."

Invading Iraq, Invading Normandy

Speaking of Rumsfeld, Friday's column omitted a statement in one interview that gave important perspective to the current deep divisions over Iraq.

"I think that our country has always had dissent of various types. I lived through World War II," he said. (Rumsfeld was 13 years old when the war ended.) "And there were vicious comments made against our political leadership during that conflict. But the American people absorbed it. We persisted."

Yes. Who can forget those huge riots in Times Square, protesting the D-Day landings?