—H. L. MENCKEN After more than eight years spent looking for Osama bin Laden, the CIA finally got their first break in the hunt for the al Qaeda leader in August 2010, when Pakistani agents working for the CIA followed an al Qaeda courier from an Internet café in the city of Peshawar to an isolat...
—DONALD RUMSFELD, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE TRANSCRIPT The Repeat Per formance U.S. troops entered Baghdad on April 9, 2003, leading to the immediate collapse of Saddam Hussein’s regime. Looting on a massive scale broke out, but U.S. forces did not attempt to stop it. When reporters asked about the e...