This is the first of a series of blogs to appear over the coming year, daily or almost daily, chronicling the administration’s push against Iraq from the first. Regrettably, the material is ample to extend, day by day, through the rest of the present presidential term and quite possibly into the next. These daily or almost daily posts are intended to make it impossible for history to dispute that the policy makers were bent on invading the Middle East from the first. They will not be a complete chronological record of administration policy and tactics, but they will be completely representative.    more »