Driftglass marks the Day of Shame with pictures, poetry, and heartfelt prose:

The number of dead Iraqis, who might as well be so many Pac Man dots, so little do they matter to us as real, live human beings anymore. Not that they ever did, really.

The Las Vegas Gleaner describes the magical effect Colin Powell’s vial of “Bisquick” had on Harry Reid:

Sen. Harry Reid explain[ed] just last year how Powell’s UN performance justified Reid’s vote to give Bush the blank check to go to war, even though that Senate vote happened in October 2002, which is to say nearly four months before Powell brandished his enchanted pancake mix.

Think Progress:

“one of Iraq’s engineers who tried to warn the U.S. that Saddam had shut down his weapons programs, recalls crying as he listened.”

Steve Shickles:

AP - As of Monday, Feb. 4, 2008, at least 3,945 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,211 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military’s numbers.