Four years after the invasion of Iraq, American troops battle it out with insurgents on Haifa Street in downtown Baghdad ... paying the price for four years of military and political miscalculations.
Points of Interest
- Donald Rumsfeld loses Job - Jon Stewart explains.
- Lt. General Ray Odierno - Biography
- Surge Tag Archive
- Columns by Journalist - Michael Gordon
- General Jack Keane - Biography
- About three minutes in there is footage of the soldiers helping out Iraqi's, a charity event they call it, you don't hear enough of these stories, but surely they are happening.
- Here is what the Washington Post reported on Training the Iraqi army back in Nov 2005.
"You try to build leaders," said Lt. Col. Robert M. Roth, commander of Task Force 4-64. "You're trying to build officers. But you have to understand if you go in and say, 'Duty, honor, country' -- no, it's American. You can't do that. The only thing they understand, for the most part, is money and authority."
