This is practically a non-story in the American and international media. [Or so I thought. See the first comment below.] Therefore I am posting a link to blog posts labelled "Iraq," which gives you access to the corpus of the renown foreign correspondent, Steve Muhlberger.
I am quite aware that the war began in 2003; that was before I started to blog. I freely admit that the closest I got to Iraq was when I flew over Turkey and Iran on my way to New Delhi in 2005. Some of the posts with Iraq have nothing to do with the just-past war. The very best stuff was from the Iraqi staff of Inside Iraq. But I thought somebody should reflect back on the war, and since I am the person I have the most influence over, I am doing it myself.
Apologies for the inevitable broken links. I am particularly sorry that so many pictures have disappeared.
My brief summing up: this is what you got instead of Mars. Mars, in fact, would have been cheaper.
Steve: The story received a ton of play in the U.S. this morning. At least on NPR, in the NY Times and Washington Post and on most or all of the newspaper web sites I read.
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