Tuesday, December 20, 2005 Assassinating the truth about the Iraq war By Michael RubinCommentary by "The story of the Iraq war is a story of ideas about the role of the United States in the world, and of the individuals who conceived and acted on them." This is the view of George Packer, a staff writer at The New Yorker, in the preface to his much publicized recent book "The Assassins' Gate," an account of the planning and personalities involved in the Iraq war. Packer seeks to explore U.S. involvement in Iraq through encounters with its participants, American...