I dislike linking to the BBC, but this report of the missing Americans in Iraq has more detail than AP’s version:
"The patrol of seven Americans and their Iraqi interpreter were attacked near the town of Mahmudiya, spokesman Maj Gen William Caldwell said. He said that within an hour other troops were at the scene of the attack, hunting for the [3] missing soldiers. Checkpoints have been set up to prevent the soldiers being moved from the area."
You can probably forget any future MSM pieces on the state of military recruitment, considering that it’s through the roof. And the Pentagon has finally gotten around to refuting the usual criticisms, that the troops are dumber, poorer, more likely minority, etc. So don’t hold your breath. Instead, see this nice roundup of the details about our better educated, ethnically and racially representative, and thoroughly middle-class military, with graphics.
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Latest from Jeff Emanuel, a veteran and journalist embed in Iraq
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) comment that ‘the war is lost’ and ‘the surge…hasn’t accomplished anything’ was splashed on the front page of every news outlet from Al Jazeera to the Iranian state newspaper. Contrary to the beliefs of all too many Americans who seem tied to the notion that the Iraqi people are both blind and ignorant, Congress’s votes to set a withdrawal date from Iraq — much like their other, similar votes and statements — were heard with perfect clarity by Iraqis, as well as by the insurgents who take heart from them."
Our very own Fifth Column: Congress.
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Posted in Iraq, The War, Troops
Tagged Iraq, Jeff Emanuel, US Congress
"Islam vs Islamists," a taxpayer-funded documentary told novelistically by moderate and radical imams, is being withheld from the public, says Roger L. Simon, one of the few who has seen it:
"PBS is operating here in the manner of similar institutions in the former Soviet Union and in modern day Iran – financing artists and then withholding distribution of their work when it is not deemed ideologically ‘correct’. It’s a form of thought-control…"
Well, they wouldn’t want Bush’s "scare tactics" to look justified, now would they? Read all of Simon’s take, and watch the trailer. Then read more about the doc and sign the petition to make it available. What we really need is a petition to dismantle PBS.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Scribbles, The War
Tagged Islam vs the Islamists, Pajamas Media, PBS, Roger L. Simon
Bush Derangement Syndrome strikes again. Sixty-one percent of Dems either assert or wonder if President Bush knew of the 9/11 attacks in advance, according to this Rasmussen Poll. Even the RP is gingerly with the results, choosing to headline something else. No wonder. Who wants to be first with the news that more than half the constituency of a legitimate political party is insane?
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Tagged Bush Derangement Syndrome, Dems belive Bush knew, Rasmussen Poll
You know, the ones killing American troops in Iraq? The ones the politicians never want to talk about and the MSM seldom reports? Pajamas Media serves up a good video interview with an EOD officer who knows the troubling details.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Iraq, The War, Troops
Tagged Army EOD, Iran weapons, Iraq, Pajamas Media
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