Mike Shuster of National Public Radio filed the most comprehensive, and damning, timeline story to mark the 3-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.

NPR : Iraq Three Years Later: The Path to War

This week marks the third anniversary of the beginning of the war in Iraq. Mike Shuster tracks the events leading up to the U.S.-led invasion. These include Bush administration claims — since discredited — of ongoing Iraqi nuclear weapons development and links with al Qaeda.

I was grateful to my local station, WBEZ, for not running their normal pledge drive schedule that morning – they just did a very intense, one-hour drive that day. Which was either good planning on their part, or damned lucky, because it would have lessened the impact of this piece.