Free Republic

Here we are in year six of the Iraq war, which has receded in the media to a static-filled hum of casualty figures and reports of new advances in improvised weaponry. If it takes a re-created reality to make us think concretely about what's happening there, and has been happening there, so be it. Steven Bochco tried it a couple of seasons back with "Over There," half successfully, but it lasted only one season. And now David Simon(writer) and Ed Burns ("The Wire") have adapted Rolling Stone journalist Evan Wright's book “Generation Kill.” The HBO show recounts in seven parts...

<p>FOURTEEN months on from the fall of Baghdad allows for some per spective on the invasion. John Kee gan's "The Iraq War" and Evan Wright's "Generation Kill" make interesting bookends for seeing the assault in different lights — from the lofty heights of trenchant political-military analysis down to the raw emotion of force recon Marines in battle.</p>