Odds and Ends – Iraq edition

Check out Thomas Powers’ excellent article, The Vanishing Case For War in the New York Review of Books.
Something that struck me on Thanksgiving. Will Dubya’s trip to Baghdad be viewed as a daring gesture by the C-in-C to the troops, an expensive political ploy to bolster his poll numbers (especially since Hillary Clinton was hitting both Afghanistan and Iraq) or a turkey who was so chickenshit he had to sneak in the back door? So far it looks like the first option is leading the pack.
The Detroit News has an ongoing series on the impact the war on terror is having on the Bill of Rights. (Via Behind The Homefront)

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