This is not the way some "experts" said the U.S.-led war for liberating Iraq would unfold: a military campaign of astonishing speed with a minimum of casualties, given the lethality of the weapons. So many of the experts derided this as a fantasy of the warmongers. There was supposed to be, according to these experts - we shall not embarrass them by mentioning their names - a grotesque carnage of innocent civilians. It would be a war with the scenario of hell gratuitously visited upon Iraqis: cities reduced to rubble; an unprecedented humanitarian crisis following fierce battles. However, there were...