And, we now know, the administration had spent so much time planning for how to sell its invasion that it had spent virtually no time thinking about what to do once we were actually running the country -- unless the last year’s ongoing death and domestic chaos within Iraq Is itself part of an elaborate (and sickeningly immoral) script.

New York pulled out of the Matrix program Thursday, making it the latest state to withdraw participation from the multistate, anti-terrorism information exchange.

Eleven of the 16 states that joined the Matrix program after it was created in November, 2002, have since pulled out.