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Among the rarest honors that President Bush bestows is induction into the Hundred Degree Club. Its members are the aides who have managed to keep up with him running a dusty three-mile course at his Crawford, Texas, ranch when the temperature is above 100°. It's certainly one way to get to know someone's heart, or at least his heart rate. Harriet Miers, 60, Bush's former personal lawyer, then loyal White House aide, was one of the few women to spend time clearing cedar with Bush on the ranch and pacing him on his runs, and over...
However, the predictable plot and obvious ending—he lives to write the book—give Crawford the freedom to focus on his experiences in the army. He writes in short, fast-paced episodes, vivid snapshots of daily life as a soldier in Baghdad...
...Crawford speaks honestly, sometimes shockingly so. Unabashedly, he tells of the desperation that leads him and his friends to acts of racism, sexism, and violent theft. The war makes normal 20-somethings no longer “give a fuck about anything except” themselves...
...logical assumption, but one that Crawford repeatedly subverts. Just when everything seems okay, he plunges back to war’s dark reality of pointless destruction; the narrative style brings the reader so painfully close to the truth that we can smell the feces in the streets and feel the wet remnants of human brain tissue on our shoes...
...busy ourselves in the comfort and safety of our own country, Iraq seems far away. Crawford reminds us that war is all too easily forgotten and our soldiers need to return as soon as possible...