Rubber, Meet Road

One way you can cut through all the crap and really understand Iraq is to read this one story.

When State Department personnel, with the most knowledge of the situation, balk at being sent to Iraq calling it a "death sentence" then you know that all the government spin about Iraq is nonsense.

I think we should make it a policy that anyone who is a proponent of the war must do a tour of some kind of duty (whatever their personal skills may be) in Iraq .... including Bush. With modern technology, there's no reason anyone couldn't do their job over there and get a real feel for the situation "on the ground" (or under the ground, whichever occurs).