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As an aside... If there is anybody I really feel sorry for in this, it would be the senior Iraqi staff in the meetings with Saddam right up to and into the beginning of the war. These would be officers with clear memory of the pounding they took in 1991. These are the guys that just *had* to know what short of barrel they were looking down the business end of. But yet they had to sit in those meetings and pretend in front of Saddam that they had some kind of credible defense to offer, and yet the whole time they had to know better. Poor bastards, they were victims in a way, along with the thousands that were convinced to fight the hopeless battle.

I wonder how many of those came over to work for us? I bet that's a tale that won't be told for years. . .

I think there is a great deal of really interesting stuff in both Afghanicarpetistan, and iRack, that won't be known for some years yet.

Heck, there's lots of interesting stuff about the cold war that still isn't suitable for public consumption yet, and might not be for some time yet. Stay tuned...