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>> well, wolf, it is a completely different sort of battlefield. i mean, this is urban combat. it is house to house. frankly, when it comes to the intensity of it and the kind of enemy that isis is, it is much more more fidabormidable than e the u.s. faced in falluja in 2004. isis is well dug in, relentless and they have no boundaries. they're ready for this kind of war. that's what makes the challenge all that greater. plus, they have absolutely no qualms about using the civilian population. more than once, the soldiers told us about how they'd go into a home that had a white flag in front of...

>> well, there were so many people predicting that would happen, no matter how courageous and brave and brilliant our troops were, given the historic rivalries between the sunnis, shia, the kurds within the various groups that have been going on for hundreds of years, to believe that they were going to achieve this pro american democracy, a lot of folks were saying and i was in falluja back in 2005, they were saying to me, soldiers, what was going on and do we really think we're going to resolve this thing and create a stable democracy. >> i think what i'm trying to say is that our troops acco...

The tur bulence and problems tht we're having today leads to a prosperous middle east. frankly today, it's a long shot. >> it's a long shot. a civil war is erupting. what is happening in syria could explode inside iraq right now. and the big winner may be iran because its influence from iran through iraq through syria through lebanon has been expanded. >> and i acknowledge in the book that one of the consequences of our invasion of iraq was ultimately to strengthen iran's role and influence in the region. so what i just posited is the only scenario that i see that would ultimately make people ...

Breaking news and this is history. the war in iraq is officially over. u.s. troops are moving across the board into kuwait. i remember that evening well when i announced on cnn that all u.s. combat troops left iraq. that was december of 2011. this week will mark the tenth anniversary of the iraq invasion. march 19th here in the states, march 20th baghdad time in 2003. america's part of the war may be over but iraq remains a violent and unstable place. a car bomb killed at least ten people just today in northern iraq. remember this face? it remains one of the most powerful and lasting images ...

Asked the man who took the picture. >> i found myself involved in the assault in falluja. we were under constant enemy fire. >> looking back at it, fire, to have it justified. >> we were up on the rooftop and a break in the action, he propped up next to me and starting smoking a cigarette. >> after falluja i tried to act like it had never happened. >> it shows a kid that had basically gone through a horrifying experience, traumatic experience. >> the first time i thought about committing suicide was in iraq. maybe a week after we came out of falluja. >> i did not see him for a good year after ...