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Protests in Iran

Posted on March 6, 2007 | Comments Off on Protests in Iran

The beginning of the beginning? Or just another sputter?

"Thousands of teachers staged a rally on Tuesday in front of the Majlis, the Iranian parliament, in Tehran asking Iranian education minister Mahmoud Farshidi to step down, their salaries to be raised and that colleagues fired for political reasons be reinstated. The protest, the second in just a week by teachers, was called by 30 teachers’ unions. Last Saturday, an estimated 50,000 professors protested, threatening to block mid-term exams and to strike until their fired colleagues, as many as 1,500 only in Kurdistan, were given their jobs back."

Via Gateway Pundit. 

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VA hospital solution

Posted on March 5, 2007 | Comments Off on VA hospital solution

While the one-eyed MSM focuses on Walter Reed, SFC Jack Army’s idea for improving conditions for veterans’ care across the country looks like a winner:

"Here’s my proposal: if you are a congressman/woman or work for a congressman/woman, then you and all of your immediate family can only be cared for at a VA hospital."

Heh 

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North of Karma

Posted on March 5, 2007 | Comments Off on North of Karma

The lunar eclipse from mounted patrol in Iraq:

"At some point while we were digging up the bomb, all the lights down the road went out, leaving the scene [lit] only by the ghostly half-light of the moon. As we pulled off down the road, even that pale illumination faded- the lunar eclipse had come and stolen the light."

Good piece from Teflon Don. 

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Information war

Posted on March 5, 2007 | Comments Off on Information war

Typical one-sided view of the international (it’s-all-about-us-all-the-time) news media, this time on some soldiers’ deletion of a journalists’ digital photos of unfortunate collateral death in Afghanistan:

"’Why did the soldiers do it if they don’t have anything to hide?’ said Jean-Francois Julliard, a spokesman for the Paris-based group."

Maybe they’re tired of what you hide, Jean-Francois. 

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Trust

Posted on March 4, 2007 | Comments Off on Trust

Bing West at the Small Wars Journal offers insight from a recent trip to Iraq:

"Trust will decide this war. We know the essence of the problem: Whether the Iraqi central government and security forces are led by deceivers who tell us they believe in a stable federation with power-sharing, while they abet sectarian division. In my most recent visit, there was the pervasive, open acknowledgement by the police, IA and the residents that they trusted the Americans, but not each other."

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Attack pilot

Posted on March 3, 2007 | Comments Off on Attack pilot

Momma made her join the Army, so Rachal Franklin became a pilot, an Apache gunship pilot.

"Though women are still barred from infantry and other ground combat units, this [Iraq] is the first war in which female U.S. troops have been authorized to shoot back. And they have – as helicopter gunners, military police, and even truck drivers forced to defend themselves on a battlefield with no clear frontlines."

Good read about our women at arms. 

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Dear Soldier

Posted on March 2, 2007 | Comments Off on Dear Soldier

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"As one soldier put it, ‘Thanks for putting the passion back into my soul,’ says Amber Baldwin D’Amico, one of the [best-selling] book’s creators and a USAA member."

Via USAA Magazine.

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