Douglas Feith was Under Secretary of Defense for Policy under Donald Rumsfeld, and one of the architects of the Bush Administration's war on terrorism. Col. David Lapan was one of the architects of the Defense Department's Embedded Media Program. David Kilcullen was a top military advisor to General Petraeus during the troop surge in Iraq. Ali Allawi was Minister of Trade and Minister of Defense in the Interim Iraqi Governing Council in 2003 and 2004. Thomas Ricks recalls how close the U.S. came to losing the war in Iraq on November 19, 2004 in a town called Haditha, 150 miles north of Baghdad.

