The Sun reviews The Devil's Double, a bloody portrait of Uday Hussein. 

After learning that Osama bin Laden, the terrorist behind the Sept. 11 attacks, was killed by U.S. forces, Cornellians erupted in celebration on campus and throughout Collegetown.

After serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, Lew Sovocool '04 now helps veterans become wildland firefighters.

Tours in 2007 and 2009 gave the Marine new outlook on life.

Dozens of Cornell graduates have served in Afghanistan or Iraq since U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan began in 2001. Today, The Sun is introducing a new series profiling the Cornell men and women who have served their country at war.

A few years ago, I read a book called Charlie Wilson’s War. This book (along with the entire Harry Potter Series) remains one of my all-time favorite reads. George Crile amassed an incredible amount of research and produced a thrilling narrative. IT. IS. GENIUS. More significantly, IT. IS. ALL. TRUE. But beyond the geniusness, Charlie Wilson’s War is a wonderfully detailed portrait of a uniquely American figure. On Wednesday, that figure, Charlie Wilson, passed away due to a heart attack.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Suicide bomb blasts tore through crowds waiting for food aid in central Baghdad and inside a roadside restaurant filled with Iranian pilgrims Thursday, killing at least 78 people in Iraq's deadliest day in more than a year.

The toll — at least 31 dead in Baghdad and 47 to the north in Diyala province — follows a series of high-profile attacks this month blamed on Sunni insurgents. The violence highlights potential security gaps as Iraqi forces increasingly take the lead role from U.S. forces in protecting Baghdad and key areas around the capital.

On Feb. 19, Peter J. DeMott, a local peace activist, died from injuries he sustained after falling from a tree. DeMott, served in both the U.S. Marines and the U.S. Army and spent much of his life protesting war, most recently the Iraq War. He was 62.

DeMott was born in Washington D.C. in 1947, but, according to his autobiography, grew up in Minnesota and Nebraska. After serving in the Vietnam War, DeMott developed strong anti-war views.

In a personal biography, DeMott wrote, “My experience in the military convinced me of the futility of war and of the sad misallocation of resources which war-making requires … My faith in God prompts me to work for a world which unifies us all by ties of love and solidarity and mutual cooperation.”

A debate painfully absent from the discourse on Iraq is the definition of victory. Pro-war politicians, including Senator McCain, talk about “victory with honor” but avoid the difficulties inherent in defining our victory in Iraq. Although occasionally articulated but never consistently, defining victory should be our most important concern going forward. After all, doing so would seem to be the necessary condition for actually achieving victory. Since, however, no one wants to take the risk and define victory, let me take a few stabs at piecing together possible scenarios that might satisfy what Senator McCain describes as “victory with honor.”