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Friday Mornings at the Pentagon ***By** JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY **McClatchy Newspapers** Over the last 12 months, 1,042 soldiers, Marines, sailors and Air Force personnel have given their lives in the terrible duty that is war. Thousands more have come home on stretchers, horribly wounded and...

Vary interesting. wonder how much of this info you will see on CNN, NBC, ABC etc. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/30/AR2007073001380_pf.html Clyburn: Positive Report by Petraeus Could Split House Democrats on War By Dan Balz and Chris Cillizza Washington Post...

I friend of mine in Iraq started a post on another site. He allowed people to ask him questions to ask the Iraqis that he worked with. I'd post a link to the thread, but it is in a members area for the site. I will however cut and paste some of the questions and answers here in this thread. Q I...

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070603/D8PHA8LG0.html By ANDREW TAYLOR WASHINGTON (AP) - After promising unprecedented openness regarding Congress' pork barrel practices, House Democrats are moving in the opposite direction as they draw up spending bills for the upcoming budget year...

Worth your time to watch... http://www.youtube.com/p.swf?video_id=ervaMPt4Ha0&eurl=http%3A//www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html%3Fb%3D1%26f%3D5%26t%3D579485&iurl=http%3A//img.youtube.com/vi/ervaMPt4Ha0/2.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskJPv8rYuCjOzFszTVAE6x5A&autoplay=1 Aviator

Interesting read. It explains WHY what she did was wrong... http://opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110009908 Illegal Diplomacy Did Nancy Pelosi commit a felony when she went to Syria? BY ROBERT F. TURNER Friday, April 6, 2007 11:30 a.m. EDT House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may well have committed a...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article1530762.ece From The Sunday Times March 18, 2007 Iraqis: life is getting better Marie Colvin MOST Iraqis believe life is better for them now than it was under Saddam Hussein, according to a British opinion poll published today. The...

This is our very very busy season in Afghanistan so I have not been able to come in and post much lately. Mission load is just too heavy for taking the time to do it. I did however think you might find this interesting. False Stories Abound in Chaos of Iraq...

http://tinyurl.com/2mfze9 Fixed url to fit window width. LDB There were a few tense moments, however, including an encounter involving Joshua Sparling, 25, who was on crutches and who said he was a corporal with the 82nd Airborne Division and lost his right leg below the knee in Ramadi, Iraq...

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/16487654.htm?source=rss No-spank bill on way By Mike Zapler MediaNews Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO - The state Legislature is about to weigh in on a question that stirs impassioned debate among moms and dads: Should parents spank their...

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061221/D8M4TNQ80.html Yep, this sounds like they had nothing to worry about... Dec 20, 7:56 PM (ET) By LARRY MARGASAK WASHINGTON (AP) - President Clinton's national security adviser removed classified documents from the National Archives, hid them under a...

Back from vacation / leave. I just spent a good 2 weeks back int he US. Now, back in Afghanistan, I can attest to the fact that the troops are really ##### about Kerry's comment. As a member of the military myself, I take serious offense to his statement. I don't know if he ment to say...

This is one of my favorites. If you wonder why it took 50 years to get the truth about Joe McCarthy, consider the fanatical campaign of the Clinton acolytes to kill an ABC movie that relies on the 9/11 Commission Report, which whitewashed only 90 percent of Clinton's cowardice and...

Here is a link to an interesting web site I go to a lot and browse through some of the threads. It is (in my opinion) the new face of the Democratic Party. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=364 People have gone from Democrat, to Liberal, to...

Interesting article in the Uk Times regarding the Abu Ghraib Prison. Now that the Americans have given the job of running the place over to Iraqis, the prisoners want the Americans back. Not saying I condone what the MPs did there, but torture is one thing, and harassment is something totally...

Earlier this year, we were working an area where we would go to Camp Gereshk a lot for fuel. We usually stuck around and had lunch with the guys there. I will attach a few photos here of a memorial in Gareshk that they were adding a couple more names to that day. The photos are of inside the...

The following essay was written by Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman, U.S. Army (Ret.) Director, Killology Research Group (www.killology.com). Colonel Grossman is a somewhat controversial figure - he authored the book - "On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society" -...