Author Tommy Franks, Reporting for Duty General Tommy Franks gave a number of interviews for his just-released book AMERICAN SOLDIER, in which he indicates he expects the U.S. will need to maintain soldiers in Iraq for up to five years. Franks says that President Bush’s appearance on an aircraft carrier under a “Mission Accomplished” banner six weeks into the Iraq campaign started with a suggestion of his to thank the troops at a public event. “That was not so everyone could have a victory lap,” Franks tells an interviewer. “We’d been given to believe that once major hostilities were over, […]