I’ve long felt that the “battle for Larry, Moe & Curly” during the taking of Baghdad could be the subject of a gripping war movie. The battles at the three highway interchanges broke the last significant Iraqi resistance to the U.S. invasion and triggered the collapse of Saddam’s regime two days later. During the battle, there was a live video feed from the action. I saw one US soldier who was was leaning on his Humvee for cover while a medic bandaged his shrapnel wounded leg, all the while keeping his weapon on target. Later, across the highway, they were picking up a wounded soldier on a litter, he motioned them to pause and he sat up, aimed his weapon and pulled off a couple of rounds, hit whoever he was shooting at, and then lay back down to be carried to an ambulance.
