“…it wasn’t until March 4, 2002, five months after the war [in Afghanistan] commenced, that American soldiers started fighting in a normal, military way. This, from the March 5, 2002, edition of the New York Times: ‘In some of the fiercest fighting of the five-month war in Afghanistan, American ground forces took the lead in a large-scale combat operation for the first time, American officials said.’ ”
– Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Pages 218-219