As a group of old high school friends wander through San Francisco on Halloween night, two of them are forced to confront their unspoken sexual history.

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Fiasco is a more strongly worded title than you might expect a seasoned military reporter such as Thomas E. Ricks to use, accustomed as he is to the even-handed style of daily newspaper journalism. But Ricks, the Pentagon correspondent for the Washington Post and the author of the acclaimed account of Marine Corps boot camp, Making the Corps (released in a 10th anniversary edition to accompany the paperback release of Fiasco), has written a thorough and devastating history of the war in Iraq from the planning stages through the continued insurgency in early 2006, and he does not shy away from naming those he finds responsible. His tragic story is divided in two. The first part--the runup to the war and the invasion in 2003--is familiar from books like Cobra II and Plan of Attack, although Ricks uses his many military sources to portray an officer class that was far more skeptical of the war beforehand than generally reported. But the heart of his book is the second half, beginning in August 2003, when, as he writes, the war really began, with the bombing of the Jordanian embassy and the emergence of the insurgency. His strongest critique is that the U.S. military failed to anticipate--and then failed to recognize--the insurgency, and tried to fight it with conventional methods that only fanned its flames. What makes his portrait particularly damning are the dozens of military sources--most of them on record--who join in his critique, and the thousands of pages of internal documents he uses to make his case for a war poorly planned and bravely but blindly fought.

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Nightmare seller: DVD drive to test the audio and video equipment. The disk contains a set of tests to check the audio and video path.
As most of us make a choice when purchasing audio-visual equipment (home theater in particular)? He came, looked, listened, bought what seemed better (on a dedicated bag). And what we see and hear in the store? Special selection of audio (usually with zadranymi upper and lower ranks), a special selection of video (with distorted video settings, but it looks on screen ?????????). Come home, turn on and begin to wonder. And why my music sounds not like the store and corporate DVD for some reason not so nice look. And the reason would be more in the store before you buy does not check the machine? It is for this and serves the proposed drive.

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