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I like this picture. I really do. After seeing so often this particular avenue full of the proud, marching, Moscow-on-Mayday ranks of Iraqi military forces on review before Saddam, this shot of Charlie Company Task Force 1-64 of the 3rd Infantry Division brings it on home.<\/p>\n

\"BRANT<\/center><\/p>\n

(via Andrea<\/a>; larger version here<\/a>.)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I like this picture. I really do. After seeing so often this particular avenue full of the proud, marching, Moscow-on-Mayday ranks of Iraqi military forces on review before Saddam, this…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5601,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/12\/through_a_glass.html","url_meta":{"origin":477,"position":0},"title":"Through a glass darkly","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 12-Feb-04 10:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Early descriptions of a classified Pentagon study of the Iraq War from the perspective of Iraqi army officers is revealing some interesting tidbits, including: Saddam was so convinced that there...","rel":"","context":"In "Geopolitical Brouhaha"","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8948,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/17\/iraq_then_and_n.html","url_meta":{"origin":477,"position":1},"title":"Iraq, Then and Now","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 17-Mar-06 11:51am","format":false,"excerpt":"NBC journalist Richard Engel, who's been posted to Iraq pre-war and post-war, offers an assessement of life then vs. life now. 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