slow, mismanaged arrival armored vehicles bulletproof plates flak vest — George Packer, Assassins’ Gate: America Iraq

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The slow, mismanaged arrival of armored vehicles and bulletproof plates for flak vests was only the most conspicuous demonstration of how the Iraq War, like every war — just or unjust, won or lost — became a conspiracy of the old and powerful against the young and dutiful.

George Packer, The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq

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