The Leonard Lopate Show

Journalist Michael Ware is the Baghdad Bureau Chief for Time Magazine. He was embedded in Fallujah during the recent US offensive earlier this month, and has covered the war in Iraq since February 2003. He joins us today with his perspective on the situation in Iraq.

LOPATE: I get the feeling that you’re also telling me that Fallujah may be won for the moment, and maybe won for the rest of this war, but there’ll be many more Fallujahs…

WARE: Oh, absolutely. There’s not going to be the great…. You know… weeping sore that Fallujah was… I mean, it was a stellar act of defiance. I mean, to be able to actually secure and control a city, and to beat off the US military, and to play such a savvy political game that it tied the military hands… But, we’re going to see it popping up here, there, everywhere… In front, in behind, beside us, up and down, everywhere. I mean…… this doesn’t feel like victory to me….

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