That's A Leader

60 Minutes is bad, but it occasionally stumbles onto incredible stories - and people.

A central figure last night was a guy named Lieutenant Colonol Geoffrey Slack. At one point, he and his men found a suspicious object on the road. He goes to give it a close look himself:

LOGAN: (Voiceover) The can turns out to be a bomb powerful enough to kill anyone within 50 yards. How do you know it's not going to explode when you walk up to it like that?

Lt. Col. SLACK: You're not going to put this on--on TV because my wife will have a heart attack.

LOGAN: I'm going to put it on.

Lt. Col. SLACK: It's either I do it or they do it [his men].

There was also this exchange:

LOGAN: Why does it take three battalions, two Iraqi battalions and an American battalion, and all that firepower to secure that stretch of road?

Lt. Col. SLACK: Because you're dealing with--you're trying to find an enemy who looks exactly like the people you don't want to kill.