Category Archives: Iraq

Anti-Jihadi comic book

Posted on January 24, 2008 | Comments Off on Anti-Jihadi comic book

Artist John Cox, of Cox & Forkum fame, brings the war on Islamic facism to the world of comic books. Matamoros is not Captain America, fortunately, but it’s just as accessible. Maybe more so. I’ve ordered my copy. Matamoros, by the way, is Spanish for Moor-slayer.

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Hate disguised as public service

Posted on January 18, 2008 | Comments Off on Hate disguised as public service

I confess I didn’t pay much attention to the NYTimes’ latest smear on combat veterans–implying without context (statistical or otherwise) that the sometimes dubious violent crimes of 121 returned Afghanistan and Iraq veterans are connected to their combat experiences. The Democrat house organ helped invent the slur on Vietnam combat veterans as "ticking time bombs," making us the forerunners of the actual Muslim suicide bomber. But Ralph Peters doesn’t overlook such things, even if they aren’t news. In "The New Lepers," he describes the latest smear as "an artful example of hate-speech disguised as a public service."

Via Instapundit 

MORE: Beware the brutal veteran journalist, with actual incidents. Humor from Iowahawk. You might need to worry, because a lot of them are going to be laid off in the near future.

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JDAMs on Jabour

Posted on January 13, 2008 | Comments Off on JDAMs on Jabour

Thirty-four Al Q boys have bought the farm in a major U.S. operation southeast of Baghdad, ably reported by Bill Roggio’s Long War Journal–with gunsight video.

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Broken eagle

Posted on January 12, 2008 | Comments Off on Broken eagle

Amazing computer animation of the structural-failure accident that has forced the grounding of many F-15 Strike Eagles. You can argue about how many air-superiority fighters are needed nowadays, but apparently not about the longeron problem afflicting some of these 25-year-old aircraft.

MORE: The Air Force blames manufacturer McDonnell Douglas’s work in the 1970s. 

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Maj. Andrew J. Olmsted, R.I.P.

Posted on January 4, 2008 | Comments Off on Maj. Andrew J. Olmsted, R.I.P.

The surge is obviously working. You can tell because Iraq is no longer front page news very often, and most of the pols have stopped yammering about pulling out. But good Americans are still dying there, including this 37-year-old, Big Red One Iraqi army advisor and milblogger from Colorado Springs. Oddly enough, he left behind his own final post and this sayonara:

"I’m dead, but if you’re reading this, you’re not, so take a moment to enjoy that happy fact."

Via Instapundit

MORE: A friend who served with Olmsted at Fort Carson, CO, remembers him in this touching  tribute. And word is finally trickling out about how AJO died: a sniper got him while he was trying to talk some insurgents into surrendering.

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Got a used cell phone?

Posted on December 3, 2007 | Comments Off on Got a used cell phone?

Want to help a troop in Iraq or Afghanistan call home? Here’s where to send your old phone to aid the call–by a superior service originated by a Massachusettes 13-year-old and her 12-year-old brother.

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Osprey over Anbar

Posted on November 25, 2007 | Comments Off on Osprey over Anbar

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They’re finally in theatre. Hope they fix that forward-looking gun problem, in case they need it. 

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