Acknowledgments -- Map of Baquba and Buhriz -- Evolution -- Genesis -- Insurgency : a prelude -- The Easter offensive -- Insurgency : a primer -- All things conventional -- June -- Insurgency : a practicum -- IEDs : the menace beneath -- A city upon a hill : the urban morass -- A city upon a hill : the high ground -- Good things, bad people, and the pictures to prove it -- The moral fight : photogs -- Regime change -- Revisionistas : an interlude -- Holidays : Orient and Occident -- Ramadan in America -- Christmas in Iraq -- The eve of a nation -- Reformation -- Hope and salvation -- To be or not to be -- Up to the task -- Security -- Democracy.