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At this writing, barely 12 hours after the first missile attack, we have achieved state-of-the-art War TV. Flipping around the dial is as surreal as it gets: A CBS correspondent describes a “beautiful starry night” in Kuwait City; on NBC there’s talk of a “decapitation attack”; on Fox, Scuds being intercepted by Patriots; on CNN, word of troops sleeping in chemical suits with boots on during a heavy artillery barrage in northern Kuwait. At the same time, on local New York station WPIX, all eyes are on one guy fighting until the bitter end.