Michael Yon from Iraq

…it will be “unlike anything we’ve seen before”

Twenty thousand additional troops are going in locked and loaded, and the enemy they’ll confront is well aware of the enormous propaganda value of any action they take this week. As you read these words, American soldiers are counting ammunition, suicide bombers are preparing farewell videos, reporters are outlining stories, and speechwriters are typing furiously away.

As six million people in Baghdad wait and pray.