One of the most ambitious flops of the malaise era was what one automotive historian called “ a spectacular miss of Hollywoodian proportions,” despite a marketing campaign that included none other than the "Sultan of Swoon."
On November 11, 2004 some thirteen thousand coalition troops were in Anbar province, Iraq, fighting the deadliest battle of the War in Iraq. Armistice Day, 2004, was war at its most horrible.