Americans sons and fathers being killing. Attempts to censor these images in America since seeing the awful truth would conflict with the "things are going well in Iraq" msgs. Warning: Very difficult to watch.

What we are learning from Mr. Libby's trial is just what a Herculean effort it took to execute this two-pronged cover-up after Mr. Wilson's article appeared. Mr. Cheney was the hands-on manager of the 24/7 campaign of press manipulation and high-stakes character assassination, with Mr. Libby as his chief hatchet man. Though Mr. Libby's lawyers are now arguing that their client was a sacrificial lamb thrown to the feds to shield Mr. Rove, Mr. Libby actually was - and still is - a stooge for the vice president.     Whether he will go to jail for his misplaced loyalty is the human drama of his trial. But for the country there are bigger issues at stake, and they are not, as the White House would have us believe, ancient history. The administration propaganda flimflams that sold us the war are now being retrofitted to expand and extend it.

The "mistakes" of the prior administrations were not in failing to invade Iraq (George H. W. Bush recognized that this would lead to an insoluble quagmire) but in refusing to lift the UN sanctions at the end of 1998 when Iraq was demonstrably in compliance with UNSCR 687. Instead, in keeping with the US government policy that the sanctions would never be lifted as long as Saddam was still in power (a direct violation of Resolution 687, by the way, but who's counting?), the US and UK governments staged a faux crisis involving a regional Ba'ath party office, ordered Richard Butler to withdraw the UN inspectors, and launched three days of illegal missile strikes against Iraq.