We covered several stories that cropped up during the week of March 9, 2008, but we missed a small, yet telling one from The New York Times. According to a Pentagon report released Wednesday, there was no tie between Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. Perhaps something we all already knew (or thought we knew), but a good reminder of some of the smokescreens that went up five years ago at the start of the Iraq War. On that note, the BBC is running a retrospective on the five years and the outlook on the future this week. It’s been quite interesting to look back on some of the details we’ve forgotten - such as the estimated amount of civilian deaths - as U.S. forces approach their 4,000th.
20th Mar, 2008