Michael Kelly was an embedded war correspondent and a hawk. He died in a vehicle accident in Iraq, on April 4, 2003. In his last published column, (NY Post, 03/26/03), he praised the Pentagon’s War Plan. Only an Albert Camus-like writer could do justice to the enormous horror that is the misnomer labeled, “Operation Iraqi Freedom.” Kelly’s unfortunate death, like that of the old, but dead, Iraqi warrior that he met on the bridge over the Euphrates River, put a human face on it. And, here is the greatest tragedy of all: None of this had to be!