RIP David Halberstam.

One of journalism's best and brightest, snuffed out too soon.

In 1964, at age 30, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from Vietnam.
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Speaking to a journalism conference last year in Tennessee, he said government criticism of news reporters in Iraq reminded him of the way he was treated while covering the war in Vietnam.

"The crueler the war gets, the crueler the attacks get on anybody who doesn't salute or play the game," he said. "And then one day, the people who are doing the attacking look around, and they've used up their credibility."

In-deed.
In other news today:

BAGHDAD — Nine U.S. soldiers were killed and 20 were wounded Monday in a suicide car bombing against a patrol base northeast of Baghdad, the military said.

The attack occurred in Diyala province, a volatile area that has been the site of fierce fighting involving U.S. and Iraqi troops, Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias.

And Mr. Wolfowitz is lawyering up for a fight. Girding his loins, so to speak. "Total good faith." Heh. ("Send lawyers, guns and money; The shit has hit the fan.")

WASHINGTON — World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz has hired a prominent attorney as he fights to keep his job, in jeopardy for arranging a generous compensation package for a bank employee with whom he has been romantically linked.

"I want to be sure that he receives appropriate treatment and fair treatment," Robert Bennett, a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, said Monday.
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"I've reviewed all the material — all the relevant material — and it is absolutely clear to me that he acted in total good faith in this," Bennett said.