They came to give Iraq peace, order and prosperity, or what they used to understand as order and prosperity. And we ended up on another planet - where the garbage is not sorted into bins, but simply live in it, where hatred is stronger than reason and common sense, where liberators can pass through the liberated country only with aviation cover, where even those who want to say thank you to them do it’s secret, and where they themselves have no one and nothing to thank for. Even those who left there alive will never be alive again in the full sense of the word. Journalist David Finkel, a Pulitzer Prize winner, lived for eight months at a US Marine battalion in Iraq. His account of this experience shocked America.