Lest we forget, more than just our soldiers will be returning from Iraq. Read A Bad Homecoming? for some rational fears on what we will be facing when DoD-sanctioned thugs come back.

And when you're done, just to ease the tension a little, come back here and read BlackWater Fever, posted on The Spy Who Billed Me. It's a list of the vain and/or foolish sociopathic behaviors observed among the (politely termed) "private military contractors".