Not fast enough, but I'll give President Obama credit where it's due for the drawdown in Iraq. Still, it's a tragedy when even Obama, during a major speech on US policy in Iraq [1], won't apologize for the criminal destruction of that country by the United States. Instead, as the White House transcript of Obama's remarks reveals, he spoke only of the US troops that "have borne the burdens of war"—not once mentioning the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who died because of President Bush's wanton and misguided war of aggression.

Classified information on the war in Afghanistan has been released by three major media sources in the world–the New York Times, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel. Nearly 92,000 documents were provided to the three sources by Wikileaks, and have been published in the form of “war logs.”