The symbol of how our expectations about the war in Iraq were so catastrophically in error will not be found in the burned buildings of Baghdad, the sands of the desert, or in the very fact that our troops finally left in a caravan of tanks crossing back over the border in 2011 (and not 2003 as promised). In a sad coincidence, and an indignity that can barely be excused, the Air Force conceded this month that it had dumped partial remains of at least 274 troops that were returned to its mortuary at Delaware Dover Air Force base into a Virginia landfill. When a soldier dies, Dover is the first stop home. The war began when we were not allowed to see their bodies; the media was banned from taking photographs.-