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2008-04-08 Iraq

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Posted by OldSpook 2008-04-08 14:35|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Book Description

Never underestimate the American soldier. That's the moral of former Green Beret Michael Yon's brilliant battle-by-battle, block-by-block tale of how America's new `greatest generation' of soldiers is turning defeat and disaster into victory and hope in Iraq.

The American soldier is the reason General David Petraeus's brilliant strategy of moving our soldiers off isolated bases and out among the Iraqi people is working. Working to find and kill terrorists, reclaim neighborhoods, and help lead Iraq to democracy.

Yon is no cheerleader. According to the New York Times, he has logged more time in combat situations in Iraq than any other reporter. When failed American leadership was driving Iraq into chaos and civil war, nobody told the story earlier or better than Michael Yon. The top brass was so mad that twice the U.S. military denied him access to Iraq.

So Yon has supreme credibility when he says that we are finally winning, not primarily with our overwhelming technology, not with shock and awe destruction, but with the even more powerful force of American values--with the courage and leadership, strength and compassion of our soldiers.

Iraqis respect strength, says Yon. They know American soldiers are "great-hearted warriors" who vanquish the Al Qaeda terror gangs that "raped too many women and boys, cut off too many heads, brought drugs into too many neighborhoods."

But Iraqis also discovered that these great warriors are even happier helping rebuild a clinic or a school or a neighborhood. They learned the American soldier is not only the most dangerous man in the world, but the best man too. That's what turned defeat into victory.

Here is the true, untold story of the American soldier and the courage and values that are bringing victory for America--and Iraq.

(from the Review blurb on Amazon)

Posted by OldSpook 2008-04-08 14:44|| 2008-04-08 14:44|| Front Page Top

#2 got my signed copy (available through Yon's website) in the mail yesterday

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-04-08 15:52|| 2008-04-08 15:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Just ordered my signed copy two minutes ago.

Posted by Pancho Elmeck8414 2008-04-08 18:16|| 2008-04-08 18:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Can he make it a movie? I don't have the time right now to read the book. I have an hour and a half though.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-04-08 20:10|| 2008-04-08 20:10|| Front Page Top

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