What are you going to say when they start sending us home?" I can still see the slightly crazed look in Robert Fisk’s eye as he waited for my answer. I had no idea what The Independent’s legendary war reporter was talking about. "When they start sending us home in body bags…" he explained, "…what are you going to say to our families?"
Shock and awe. The phrase was yet to take its place in the lexicon of the Iraq war alongside "axis of evil", "dodgy dossier" and "the surge", but it might have been invented to describe the combative Fisk. He certainly got my attention.
