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Goodbye Iraq
Friday December 16, 2011
In honor of the end of formal U.S. military operations in Iraq, I have dragged out, dredged up, and rummaged through the series of columns I wrote while I was in Iraq in 2003 and 2004. Starting with the third (or so) chapter, I generally wrote one per week and that was done on Sundays. I chronicled my own adventures, the people I met, the wonderful service members I got to hang around with, and peppered the essays with photographs I took with my Canon point-and-shoot. I was headquartered in Baghdad - in the Green Zone - but as you will see my duties and proclivities took me to most corners of Iraq and to other countries in the Persian Gulf region. The story begins with the phone call from the White House staffer asking me to go; and ends not far from where it started - having dinner at Landini's in Old Town Alexandria with my wife, son and his then-fiancee - now our daughter-in-law. The essays have not been edited since I wrote them. The writing is sometimes uneven; words are left-out and sentences incomplete. It was, after all, a war zone and I was sitting in the middle of it - at my desk, in a Humvee or out in the desert somewhere. The essays are in order. If you scroll to the bottom and start with Chapter 1, you will get some sense - within the limits of my writing and photographic capabilities - of what it was like to be in Mesopotamia on behalf of the U.S. Government in the earliest days of the War in Iraq. To read the Iraq Essays, click HERE. -- Rich Copyright © 2011 Barrington Worldwide, LLC Become a Paid Mullings Subscriber! (To join the FREE mailing list or to unsubscribe Click Here) 
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