The Easter uprising in April of 04 was the insurgents attempt to cut Baghdad off and you had highway 5 which went from the East and Diala all the way across Baghdad. The idea of civilians became a PR war and it started with unfortunately with Abu and that horrific story where you had a National Guard unit abusing prisoners. It just put fuel on the fire what made me think of that is I could see your leadership telling you in what would it be in February or maybe even January of 2004 like hey you're not gonna get combat action right you know you're gonna go it's gonna be but I guarantee by April when that when when they win this when the mighty militia militia went berserk right

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