That’s what we learned from today’s op-ed in the Post. The piece, written by 12 former Army captains and titled “The Real Iraq We Knew,” is no doubt an accurate portrait of Iraq circa 2005. As many folks have already pointed out, “Only two of the 12 captains had been in Iraq as late as 2006, with the rest all departing in 2005 or before. None of them are currently on active duty.” Which is why this graph is so troubling: