as a first lieutenant, an infantry platoon leader for the US Army, National Guard, Paul Rieckhoff was charged with leading 38 men and Iraq. He spent almost a year and one of the bloodiest and most volatile areas of Baghdad, and when he finally came home, he vowed to tell Americans the harrowing truth he does just that uncensored and unrehearsed in chasing ghosts the first criticism of the Iraq war, and President Bush, written by soldier, who fought in Iraq.