The Importance of Understanding the Iraqi Army

"We designed a strategy that would minimize the amount of damage to the country," he says. "In our mindset was that we were there to conquer them but to liberate them." Marines and Army going in, thinking it would be over in one or two weeks? Well, they were cheering us, which was almost everywhere we went,. But the attack part of it, I mean, in a sense was easy. We know what we're going to win!"