ENDGAME IRAQ | Documenting the desert
BAGHDAD
Backed for days in Baghdad with dust storms and red skies to the north. My videographer and I have been making our way slowly around the safe area, getting money shots of Saddam’s greater follies in the vanishing desert twilight. The dust has been good to us, giving us time to chew our way through the idea of being in Iraq. It’s actually pretty safe here if you stay inside the war machine. The only cities where fighting still breaks through to Uncle Sam are perhaps Mosul and Dialla. There, two or three IEDs explode daily, and I hear the war continues. Down here though, the...
