Category Archives: Iraq

The Wild West

Posted on June 19, 2007 | Comments Off on The Wild West

Passionate reporting from Michael Yon–who is throwing in his lot with Gen. Petraeus–who says a big US offensive is underway in Iraq, one that is so far largely ignored back home. "It’s like the Wild West out there," one commenter quotes her infantryman brother who is moving in with the Stryker Brigade.

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Running al Q to ground

Posted on June 17, 2007 | Comments Off on Running al Q to ground

Wretchard says you can tell a lot about what’s going on with the big offensive in Iraq just by glancing down the long list of Multi-National Force-Iraq press releases and their titles, a lot more than usual.

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Home leave

Posted on June 17, 2007 | Comments Off on Home leave

Teflon Don is blogging his home leave. He seems to have arrived, but mentions this stop in Dallas:

"After another long stretch in the plane, we landed in Dallas. The people in Dallas are great–my first glimpse of America included a fire truck spraying an arc of water over the plane to welcome us home. Inside, the terminal was almost bare, but there was a still a small crowd that went to the airport at 6 a.m. to greet us."

Some veterans groups, particularly Vietnam veterans, organize these welcomes. Glad to see they’re still doing them at DFW. I guess the firetrucks were organized by the airport. "No one was rude," he writes, as if he expected some might be.

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At war with the Brits

Posted on June 8, 2007 | Comments Off on At war with the Brits

Another good photo essay by Michael Yon on the Brits patrolling in Southern Iraq:

"…life is simple. Sand. Wind. Sand. More wind."

Always worth a look.

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Of buffalo

Posted on June 8, 2007 | Comments Off on Of buffalo

JD Allen in Brazoria has another interesting riff, this one on buffalos and Hollywood, with bulls and cows mixed in and around there. This is the sort of buffalo I was preoccupied with earlier, an IED hunter, in a link to something Teflon Don was describing. But JD’s is the more elemental, mythic American Great Plains animal you have heard of. Speedy devil.

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The ticking time bomb – revised

Posted on June 5, 2007 | Comments Off on The ticking time bomb – revised

Once upon a time, Vietnam veterans were ticking bombs just waiting for the time to go off. Now it’s Iraq veterans turn. The problem here, I rather think, is journalism’s. Too many anti-warriors and too few reserve, guard or veteran soldiers in the newsroom.

Via Best of the Web Today 

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Blown tire on the Buffalo

Posted on June 5, 2007 | Comments Off on Blown tire on the Buffalo

One of better milblogs in Iraq that hasn’t shut down, courtesy of Teflon Don:

"The last time we recovered the beast was just after we started working in Falluja– EOD had set up a controlled detonation of an IED, and assured the BUFFALO crew that they were far enough away to be clear of the blast. Long story short, they weren’t, and we had to tow it back and replace three tires before heading back out to restart the mission. Ironically, the one time the BUFFALO was seriously damaged by an IED, we managed to clank all the way home before the shrapnel rattling in the cylinders destroyed the engine."

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