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...built it. Sitting conveniently across from the Palestine Hotel, the de facto headquarters of the press in Baghdad, the square lacked only floodlights and a craft-services table to be a stage set for Saddam's grand finale. Dozens of journalists darted among Marines and Iraqis, shouldering cameras like rocket launchers. Was it amazing that we saw a war's climax live on TV? Or did this become the war's climax because it happened live on TV? After that statue of the tyrant fell, it was irresistible, if wrong, to speak of the war in the past tense. Fighting...
...opened fire on suspected looters. They would let us go by, we were told, but would shoot anybody trying to get into the station. A well-armed checkpoint waved us by with salutations just outside the gas station. Twenty or so men with automatic rifles, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades waved from the ditch where they had taken up positions. We drove on past the usual sights along the Tikrit road: a missile laying on its upturned transporter for the past few days - the transporter had been picked clean of any useful parts but the missile was untouched...
...With a rocket arm and impressive range, Goldberg often makes difficult plays seem routine...
...short, Goldberg provides a rocket arm and switched up batting stance to provide some pop in the line...
...lone gunman rounds the hill, keeping his enemy in the crosshairs. As a band of mercenaries encircles him, he tosses a plasma grenade their way, killing two of them on impact. Then he raises his rocket launcher and shoots his nemesis right between the eyes. But this battle is not totally without compassion. Turning to his left, the gunman asks, “You all right, Wildfire? Your head looks kind of caved...