Lo and behold, my then-nemesis George W. Bush came on. He was, once again, on vacation at his pig ranch in Crawford, but this day he was somewhere else in Texas. That day, 11 Marines from the same reserve unit in Ohio were killed in the same incident in Iraq. Bush was asked about that and he said, "The families of the fallen can rest assured their loved ones died for a noble cause."

Of course, since my son Casey had died in the long line of Imperial wars based on lies and for profit, my ears pricked up. George was clearly at a press availability, so I waited for someone from the "press" (really, White House stenographers) to ask him what the "Noble Cause" was, since the mission-lie had already changed several times. Predictably, not one of the stenographers asked George that question.