US Deaths in Iraq Approach 4,000. That’s a heart-breaking number. But it pales in comparison next to the number of Iraqi dead.

40 years later, On the Media’s Brooke Gladstone interviews Seymour Hersh about his story on the My Lai massacre, and about Abu Ghraib. It’s a chilling account that turned my blood cold, but it’s an important story, especially today. Audio here, transcript here.

I doubt the issue is viewer fatigue. The networks simply know that they don’t do their Republican friends any favours by pounding away at coverage that reveals the depths of their incompetence and the results of their mendacity.

McCain increasingly seems to be little more than a pale shadow of who he has pretended to be. The latest, more pre-election scaremongering idiocy calculated to drive - um - less-than-reflective people towards him in the general. Simple observation: those who want to hurt America would love nothing more than to have many, [...]

The Pentagon is now trying to hide a report that exposes the lie that fuelled a war and the tens of thousands of deaths that have followed it.

Incidentally, the problem with the Iraq War is that Iraq didn’t get enough of Douglas Feith.