Mark Danner is the author, most recently, of "Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror" (2004) and "The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War's Buried History" (2007). He has covered the Iraq war from its beginning for the New York Review of Books. He teaches at both Bard College and the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. His work is archived at MarkDanner.com.
President Bush has delivered some of the most rhetorically unstable statements of this era -- creating a world where power determines reality and words follow meekly behind.
The U.S. disaster in Iraq was created by seemingly competent officials blinded by ideological hubris. With mounting American and Iraqi deaths, will reality-based policy finally prevail?
