more money we don't have

Right. And since we're talking about money we don't have? Might as well talk about what we're spending in Iraq.


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the art of war

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"Remember, I came out of Silicon Valley, where if you had a six-month lead on your competition, you win. You deprive them of cash, you have more cash . . . you get an installed base that's bigger, you take their installed base away," he says, using the financial term for operating system users.

"That's thematically what I'm thinking about, you know," he says, now jabbing his fingers at Pakistanis screaming on the cover of a news magazine. "How do I get this installed base to turn?"

Former Silicon Valley business man Major General Douglas Stone speaking to his responsibilities at the U.S. detention Camp Bucca in Iraq, in today's Financial Times.

bearing witness

Democracy is Not to Force Peoples to Follow USA

REUTERS Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War »

quinquennial

I clipped Ruth Fremson's image of an Iraqi woman cradling her dead husband's head in her hands the day it ran in the New York Times. I remember it as being shortly before the war was official, but after it was almost certain to be. I placed it on the fridge in line of sight from where I sit and drink my morning coffee. I promised myself to keep it there until it was all over; as a reminder of what war is. Of what is lost. Of what can never be regained.

Five years later it remains where I first placed it.

March 19th will be the fifth anniversary of America's war in Iraq.

Five years too many.