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Spain,
34
,
38

Spencer, Rich,
56
,
61

St. John, Jill,
250

Stalin, Joseph,
xxii
,
xxvii
,
xxviii

Stark
, USS,
xxxiii

State Department,
liii
,
46

Steiner, Carl,
208–9

Stevens, Connie,
250

Stewart, Jimmy,
249

Stone, Oliver,
251

Stratford, Mark,
63

Streisand, Barbra,
251

Strike Brigade,
237

Stroehman, Lieutenant Colonel,
96–98
,
99
,
101

suicide attacks,
105

Sunnis,
236

Sykes-Picot Agreement,
xx

Syria,
xx
,
xxvii
,
xliv
,
78
,
86

Tactical Operations Center (TOC), 4th Infantry Division,
lii

“Tailwind” story,
9
,
123

Talabani, Jalal,
237

Taliban,
xlvii

Tallil Air Base,
78
,
97

Task Force Tarawa,
68
,
73
,
77
,
199–200
; Baghdad and,
72
,
158
; An Nasiriyah and,
81–82
,
84

Task Force Tripoli,
198–99
,
201
,
203

Terrigino, SFC,
223
,
225
,
226
,
227–28
,
229

terrorism: UN and,
253
; war on,
39
,
256–59

Tet offensive,
118

Texas,
131

3rd Commando Brigade, British,
55
,
72

3rd Infantry Division,
27
,
68
,
71
,
103–4
,
173

3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion,
27
,
54
,
72
,
170

3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (Reinforced),
52

Tigris River,
lii
,
10
,
84
; march to,
125–30
,
135–38

Tikrit, Iraq,
198–203
; 4th Infantry Division and,
220
; embedded reporting in,
li–lvii
; Saddam's palace in,
223–25

Time
magazine,
5
,
6
,
9

Toolan, John,
171

Treasury Department,
49

Tulfah, Sajida,
xxvi

Tunisia,
208

Turkey,
xxiii
,
xxvii
,
xliv
,
104
,
216–17
; Operation Iraqi Freedom and,
liii

Tuwayhah, Iraq,
143
,
150

Twentynine Palms, Cali.,
20

Umm Qasr,
55

United Nations (UN): delay of Operation Iraqi Freedom by,
20
,
251–53
; Oil-for-Food Program of,
xliii
,
xlvi
,
197
,
236
,
252–53
; Operation Iraqi Freedom and,
38
,
44
,
243
; political machinations of,
20–21
; Powell's speech before,
21
; Saddam's invasion of Kuwait and,
xxxviii–xxxix
; terrorism and,
253
; Turkey and Operation Iraqi Freedom and,
liii

UN Security Council,
34
,
43

United States: Operation Iraqi Freedom and,
38
; Saddam's invasion of Kuwait and,
xxxvi

U. S. Central Command (CENTCOM),
42
,
173
; beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom and,
46
,
53–54
; Lynch rescue and,
130–31
; operational pause and,
115
; press center and,
14
; Saddam's WMDs and,
168

U. S. Navy,
41
,
52

Ur, Iraq,
69

Vallely, Paul,
85

V Corps,
71
,
103
,
116
,
126

Victory Arch,
xxxiv

Vieira de Mello, Sergio,
252

Vietnam,
lv
,
50
,
100
,
117–18
,
243
,
246
; combat in,
liv
; media in,
8–9

Wahhabis,
xxi

Ward, Jason,
63

war on terrorism,
39

War Stories
,
143

Washington, D.C.,
li
,
liii
,
38
,
110

Washington Post
,
6
,
121
,
250

Waters-Bey, Kendall Damon,
60
,
63

Waxman, Henry,
4

Wayne, John,
250

weapons of mass destruction (WMD): Hussein and,
34
; precautions against,
25–26
; Saddam and,
43
,
168–69
,
xxxiii–xxxiv
,
xlv–xlviii
; search for,
liii
,
133
,
168–69
,
220
,
252–55

Welch, Raquel,
250

Wennes, Sean,
31

West, Francis “Bing”,
111–14

White, Duffy,
180

Williamson, Ken,
28
,
30–31

Wills, Jesse,
91
,
93

Witt, Jason,
121–22

Woolsey, James,
257

World War I,
44

World War II,
xxiii
,
lv
,
217
,
220
,
244
,
249

Yugoslavia,
209

Zaidan, Nawaf al-,
236–38

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