When they crossed the line into commentary, they left the news behind in favor of anti-Bush narrative, as Badger 6 shows in a post about happenings in his area of operations.
UPDATE Hastening to dumb down the headline when it comes to Hamas and Mickey Mouse, via LGF.
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Posted in Iraq, The War, Troops
Tagged Associated Press, Badger 6, Iraq, media bias
Some soldiers say they can turn it around in Iraq in eighteen months. Military historian Victor Davis Hanson bets they have six.
"The war will be won or lost, like it or not, fairly or unjustly, in the next six months in Baghdad. Either Gen. Petraeus quells the violence to a level that even the media cannot exaggerate, or the enterprise fails, and we withdraw. For all the acrimony and hysteria at home, that in the end is what we face—the verdict of all wars that ultimately are decided by the soldiers, and then either supported or opposed by the majority at home with no views or ideology other than its desire to conform to the narrative from the front: support our winners, oppose our losers. In the end, that is what this entire hysterical four years are about."
I hope he’s wrong. If he’s right, there will be hell to pay.
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Posted in Iraq, The War, Troops
Tagged Baghdad, Iraq, Victor Davis Hanson, withdrawal
The faces of the Iraq campaign, mainly the children. Pictures by embed Michael Yon:
"A huge part of this war comes down to personal relationships and respect. It’s not about killing. That’s only a small part of it. It’s about building: building bonds that build societies. Giving Iraqi civilians a real alternative to those who create and then flee from civil havoc. Terrorists don’t pick up the trash on the way back from blowing up the electrical stations."
Worth a look.
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Tagged Iraq, Michael Yon
Congress should do so, says this two-tour Marine major because it can work and whittle our forces in half within eighteen months.
"American soldiers in Iraq are constantly asked about our commitment to a fight we started. Most of the advisers I got to know during my most recent tour, which ended in February, were quick to try to assuage their Iraqi counterparts’ concerns and dismissive of the calls for withdrawal by American politicians, news of which trickled onto the battlefield during the winter. After all, the surge itself would not be fully under way until mid-summer. Surely the politicians would give it a chance to work."
Read it all.
…be a big Red One… Some folks, (well, Paul Harvey, for one) contend Paul Jeff Emanuel is the next Ernie Pyle. Like Michael Yon, he’s a combat veteran, but also a good writer/reporter, and he’s newly embedded with the 1st ID. Worth bookmarking for the future.
Via Day By Day.
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Posted in Iraq, The War, Troops
Tagged 1st Infantry Division, Iraq, Paul Emanuel
New media’s version of the Vietnam Veterans Against The War, but for Iraq. Just sign the petition, soldier, to urge a withdrawal from Iraq.
"As a patriotic American proud to serve the nation in uniform, I respectfully urge my political leaders in Congress to support the prompt withdrawal of all American military forces and bases from Iraq . Staying in Iraq will not work and is not worth the price. It is time for U.S. troops to come home."
They claim 1,902 have signed. Mighty scruffy-looking longhair in the green helmet on the right at the top of the page. A little too much Vietnam, guys.
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Tagged anti-war, Appeal for Redress, Iraq, Vietnam Veterans Against the War
The think-tank critics and the MSM hate it. The Marines love it. And it will finally go to war, assuming the Dems haven’t figured a way to force a withdrawal by then:
"This fall Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 263 based at New River Marine Corps Air Station in North Carolina will deploy to Al Asad in western Iraq for seven months with around a dozen Ospreys, replacing 1960s-era Boeing H-46 Sea Knights for ferrying and re-supplying Marines fighting in that huge, desolate province."
Read it all at War Is Boring.
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