Thursday, September 05, 2013

First Paragraph

The first misbegotten phase of the American war in Iraq effectively came to an end on Saturday, November 19, 2005. "It was a mediocre morning" in the upper Euphrates River Valley town of Haditha, 150 miles northwest of Baghdad, Marine Lance Cpl. Justin Sharratt would later recall, "It wasn't too busy, and it wasn't suspiciously quiet."

- From The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006 - 2008 by Thomas E. Ricks

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