Plain sight?
How did you find it? Off the front page of the Post website? Or using a search function?
I went to look for this release by going to the Washington Post site, and going back to December 28.
Front page stories can be seen here. Inside the A-Section can be found here. Note the tone of the Iraq coverage on both sections.
The World page for that day is here. Note the tone of the Iraq coverage here as well.
A search of the Post news section by author didn't turn it up. It did finally turn up on a search of AP stories. If it was in the print editions at all, I'd love to hear about it.
Not exactly top of the fold, is it?