Finally

This piece is excellent, extensive, and completely damning about the post-war planning done for the Iraq War. Send it to anyone you possibly can who thinks this administration actually knows what they are doing with this country's defense.

What particularly freaks me out is that somehow I, sitting in Los Angeles in late 2002, early 2003, knew from news sources that there was no post-war plan. It was getting to me all the way over here, through the news. And yet the people actually running the war - who HAD to have known this was the case, did nothing about it, and did their level best to silence voices that pointed this out. I was always arguing this with my conservative buddy that was all gung-ho to go in and take down Saddam, but he wouldn't listen, even though I was just reporting what I'd read in the news. To him, I was just against the war because I didn't like Bush. And the news, feh! "Liberal media," he said. "The New York Times is just a liberal shill."

Do you think anyone is going to learn anything from this?

Another great quote from this New Yorker article today is Mark Halperin's defeated sounding, "In American political life, what is always creams what ought to be."