We've perhaps not done enough to mark the five year anniversary of the war in Iraq, a sobering milestone that makes this war one of the longest in American history, and a long distance from mission accomplished. SeeDavid Bromwichfor a measured analysis of the Bush administration's rhetorical evasiveness (abuse instead of torture, a surge instead of an escalation, contractors instead of mercenaries) as it prosecutes a war certain to loom as a pivot point in the modern history of both the United States and the Middle East.