Just realized that my 3/27 blog did not contain the link I thought I'd put in there, so here it is:
www.minimumeffort.com/nutshell.html

CNN.com - First Stop, Iraq - Mar. 24, 2003

I thought this was a fascinating story of how the war in Iraq came to be...

My sentiments exactly. Glad to see this is what my brother is getting shipped out to defend... not!