Couple of big interesting reads.

First, a WAPO timeline on Katrina.

Then a slamming Newsweek piece titled " How Bush blew it."

Sept. 19, 2005 issue - It's a standing joke among the president's top aides: who gets to deliver the bad news? Warm and hearty in public, Bush can be cold and snappish in private, and aides sometimes cringe before the displeasure of the president of the United States, or, as he is known in West Wing jargon, POTUS. The bad news on this early morning, Tuesday, Aug. 30, some 24 hours after Hurricane Katrina had ripped through New Orleans, was that the president would have to cut short his five-week vacation by a couple of days and return to Washington. The president's chief of staff, Andrew Card; his deputy chief of staff, Joe Hagin; his counselor, Dan Bartlett, and his spokesman, Scott McClellan, held a conference call to discuss the question of the president's early return and the delicate task of telling him. Hagin, it was decided, as senior aide on the ground, would do the deed.

Then two really big pieces in the NYTimes.

One on the fiasco at Tora Bora that let Bin Laden get away.

And a second, analyzing a lack of success in the war on terror called Taking Stock of the Forever War.

If you want detail on any of these situations, click the links, they are all very complete.