NY Times finally gets the Jessica Lynch story right....

NASIRIYA, Iraq
I've been roaming Iraq, turning over rocks in my unstinting effort to help the Bush administration find those weapons of mass destruction. No luck yet.

But I did find something related, here in the city where it seems (contrary to early Pentagon leaks) that Pfc. Jessica Lynch did not mow down Iraqis until her ammo ran out, was not shot and apparently was not plucked from behind enemy lines by U.S. commandos braving a firefight. It looks as if the first accounts of the rescue were embellished, like the imminent threat from W.M.D., and like wartime pronouncements about an uprising in Basra and imminent defections of generals. There's a pattern: we were misled.

Admittedly, this rather irresolute piece is on the op-ed page. Did I miss an earlier article? Or is the nation's beleaguered "flagship" paper only just now setting the record straight on a story that's been all over the blogs for weeks?

Complete story here.