Sometimes the king doesn't have any clothes. It took the media a long time to get around to the question of how many people there would be in the "augmentation" and -- for the most part -- the facts didn't become public because the media pressed.

The question of the cost of the escalation of the war in Iraq is mentioned in this report, with the CBO's recent estimates that it will cost double what the administration estimates diminished as a "worst case scenerio" by the Defense Department. This lacks the depth, but it is an important story.

This article is so annoying. A billion here a billion there, does it ever add up to real money? So much for cutting off the funds. There is such a huge disconnect between the American people and their government. This is sure working for somebody, somewhere. I can only wonder who......