Oliver North was one of the embedded journalists in the Iraqi war. He told the following story: This is the eighth war I've been to, the best part of it was the morning after the palace battle and leaving the capital with the 5th Marines, we're driving north toward Tikrit, [Hussein's] home town, and it's not even dawn. There are tens of thousands of people on the street cheering the United States, President Bush, and the U.S. Marines. And a vehicle stops I'm with the battalion commander, the sergeant major, crusty veteran of two wars and a lot of gunfights …