"In war, the closer you get to blood, the closer you get to truth."

If you have not followed Michael Yon's reporting on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, I urge you to do so here. Here is a brief one from Iraq: "In war, the closer you get to blood, the closer you get to truth. One day in Iraq there was a car bomb. It was like any other day at that time. Several American Soldiers were wounded."