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Do not mourn the defense secretary. Mourn his victims. There were nearly too many to tally, but his Pentagon refused to count anyway.

Scary lecture on torture techniques by Dr. Larry Forness of the American Military University in 2005. "I fill a syringe with the pig’s blood and threaten to inject him in the arm. The prisoner will talk -- and quickly."

"Having volunteered for Iraq, Mark Daily was killed in January by an I.E.D. Dismayed to learn that his pro-war articles helped persuade Daily to enlist, the author measures his words against a family's grief and a young man's sacrifice."

America's latest "Hitler" is Ahmadinejad, Iraq is Bush's Vietnam, and the NYTimes "failed the First Amendment." "You'd think that in this country with so many smart people, that we can't possibly do the same dumb thing again." But "there is no learning."

A documentary on the interminable and massive mess that is the Iraq War.

"creative policies of engagement are called for and are possible"