Mark Danner is a New Yorker staff writer and a professor of journalism at UC Berkeley. His most recent book is "Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror."
Posted on: Jun 19, 2005, Source: The New York Review of Books and TomDispatch
As Americans' support for the war in Iraq diminishes, the story of the war's beginning, clouded with propaganda and controversy as it is, will become more important, not less.