On Friday, a vegetable truck rigged with explosives blew up outside a Shiite mosque northeast of Baghdad, and gunmen sprayed automatic fire into a bakery in a Shiite district of…
Have we reached the breaking point?
I have referred to this before concerning recruitment levels for our military being at all-time lows. A recent CNN Article touches on this as well. Going back to 1995, the…
Happy Anniversary, Iraq!
Two long years, in which many lives have been lost. Estimates place the loss of American life, both military and contractor, at 1500+, the same that’s being reported in the…
Dick Cheney was right. The insurgency is in its last thrones…
…but not for the reasons he thinks. Billmon over at The Whiskey Bar has a very interesting post titled Negotiating With Terrorists. He notes that the Sunday Times of London…
I’m sorry Mr. President, your political capital account is overdrawn…
I saw only brief portions of the President’s address tonight and I have to say I am impressed with his ability to maintain lie after lie after lie. He continued…
Winning the Hearts and Minds? Not so much…
Remember back during the Vietnam War, the whole “hearts and minds” campaign? You know, the one that said we have to win their hearts and minds to get them to…
Almost Home… 5 and wake-up
f I remember correctly, my brother RoadRage is supposed to come home December 12th. He’s almost home. I don’t remember if that’s the date he’s supposed to be home or…
20 questions with an Iraq War veteran
A good friend of mine, we’ll call him V, just returned from being deployed to Iraq. I’m gald he made it back safely. He has granted me my request to…
Personality Disorder
Do you have one? According to the DoD, if you served in any armed conflict you very well could. My brother, Road-Rage, surely has one. My nephew definitely has one.…
A Profile in Courage
…That didn’t have to be. Now I could have titled this post Tears of a Clown, in reference to the visible tears that streamed down President Bush’s face while reading…