Reeves Wiedeman, Rolling Stone: Operation Iraqi Truth: New Documentary Reveals Why War Is Hell
Michael Ware spent seven harrowing years covering the Iraq War – and he has the scars to prove it
"I had a couple before, to settle myself," says Michael Ware, sipping a beer at an Irish pub in Manhattan. It's just after 3 p.m. on a Friday and the bar is lined with haggard-looking figures. Ware, who spent seven years covering the war in Iraq for Time and CNN, fits right in. His dark-blue sweater has a bullet-size hole in the chest. Black slacks cover the leg wounds he suffered during his sixth IED attack, and he still has the scruffy beard that one soldier referred to as Ware's "four-o'clock-the-next-day shadow." Desmond Garrison, a cameraman who worked with Ware in Iraq, joins him today at the bar. "When I first met Michael, in the spring of '07, he was relatively stable," Garrison says. "By the fall, he was spending more and more time alone in his room."
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WNU Editor: It looks intense.
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