Who hides the truth? While we wait for the latest Harry Potter release we can take comfort in white phosphor that that gets ghastly Iraq insurgents out from under stones into the open and burning flesh off bones. Stark reality, unbelievable brutality has a dream like quality we know it's there, like the dead soldiers coming home at night, stealthily buried without much fanfare, it's too dark to contemplate The truth isn't laughing but it frees us from sick illusions when we see the realities of war, leaders cannot tell us lies unless we chose to believe lies, but alas, we do when wooed by the privileged.