Note to Reader: Don't hesitate to suggest edits. Mirthlessly hilarious. I went to Iraq for the first time in September, 2007. I remember. read more
It's like going out for a picnic with the only people that matter in your life, and after an early morning of hard preparation of sandwiches and lugging the bigass picnic box up the mountain to its apex, you get to witness the world around you in all its rawness and beauty and desperation, knowing death was only two feet too far in any direction. read more
While fighting in Iraq and the Syrian Civil War hasn’t truly fused into one contiguous battle, it is certainly now one great big war; the fights are fully linked and involve many of the same participants, kind of like the European and Pacific Theaters during World War II. read more
The Iraq War was a protracted armed conflict that began in 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that overthrew the government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the occupying forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government. read more