On his ever-interesting Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall has some good book recommendations for people trying to figure out what just happened--and what's still to come--war-wise. Of note: The Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions, compiled and edited by Micah Sifry and Christopher Cerf. (Click through and give Josh, not me, the Amazon fees for these.)
Also, lest you were distracted by the man in the plane over there, grave things are still happening in Iraq. Josh excerpts a Newsweek article about missing radioactive material, due to the US's utter failure to secure Iraq's known-to-Hans-Blix-at-least nuclear sites. Fortunately, the uranium and other material can't be used to create a nuclear bomb, it's only useful for making "plenty" of some totally far-fetched, obscure, never-happen device called a "dirty bomb." Why are people wasting time on such implausible terrorist scenarios??
