This is something we must not forget    • Pin It "The struggle
of man against power is the struggle of memory against
forgetting." It's one of Milan Kundera's most famous lines, from
his novel "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting." It's one worth
keeping in mind as we approach March 20, the 10th anniversary of
one of the biggest disasters in the history of the United
States. That was the day George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and a team
of others -- along with much of Washington and a very complicit
mainstream media -- took the nation to war against Iraq. The
devastating consequences of that war will continue for decades,
but a full accounting has still yet to happen. And that in
itself has consequences. Allowing the toxic mixture of lies,
deception and rationalizations that led to that war to go
unchallenged makes it more likely that we will make similar
tragic mistakes in the future. So I hope we can use this moment
to assess what really happened, to look back in order to look
forward.   After Iraq, there has bee