Colonel (Ret) Nathan Slate: Hearts and Minds – Getting to Know the Iraqi People

The training warned us about Wahhabis and zealots, but no one mentioned the schoolhouse meetings, mushroom clouds in quarries, and the quiet courage of village Sheiks. #IraqWar
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