as a reprise to yesterday's post, this is the reality our media are choosing to ignore... from the nyt... Getting a story on the evening news isn’t easy for any correspondent. And for reporters in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is especially hard, according to Lara Logan, the chief foreign correspondent...

mission accomplished, celebrating the deadliest month for u.s. troops in iraq since september of last year... and, lest we lose sight of the true depth of the iraq tragedy, i'm going to something i'm loathe to do and that's to re-post one of the saddest photos i've seen in a long, long time, not for...

o-o-o-o-oooooh no-o-o-o-oooo, there's NO reservations about contact with the iraqi government, absolutely NONE, unless, of course, you want to consider that the saudi government thinks the iraqi government is biased against sunnis... but, really, that's just a teeny-tiny little thing... pay it no mi...

it's a great, articulate, informed, insightful, sweeping, and utterly damning overview......

nico pitney has done a mosiac of the 4000 americans who gave their lives for an illegal war in iraq... Click on image for full (very large) size...