Bush confused Iraq with Afghansitan, in front of Allawi, sort of like parents mixing up their kids' names.
This site is hilarious, and includes poetry Kerry has read to deer while hunting!
Former head of the NSA calls the present situation in Iraq "...far graver than Vietnam. There wasn't as much at stake strategically, though in both cases we mindlessly went ahead with the war that was not constructive for US aims. But now we're in a region far more volatile, and we're in much worse shape with our allies." Reported in the Guardian.
Slate has a concise take on Kerry's nuance vs. Bush's disregard.
I found this article from the latest Harper's particularly interesting in its examination of the US's shaping of Iraq's govornment/economy. It pits the "pragmatists" versus the neoconservative "year zeroists" in a plot that reads like a fiction thriller. Sadly this is our reality.
University of Michigan professor Juan Cole has a thing or two to say about the current situation in Iraq. He claims to not want to sound cocky, but even though he does come off that way you have to admit he does have enough justification to say "I told you so!" and has many an interesting point to make.
Isn't this election campaign just a hoot? First those SBVT folks sought the truth, now Texas citizens seek it, too.