We’re trained as infantrymen, but here we are doing civil administration and trying to get the milk factory up and running.
- Captain Stewart Glenn in Fallujah, Iraq
Over at Michael J. Totten’s website he has a piece on the Marines as “Builders of Nations.”  It’s a fascinating read.
This is a subject that I’ve been turning over […]

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Because we finance it.  With every gallon of gas I buy I’d like to think I have a share in the Saudi’s latest attempt at the worlds tallest building.
If you know nothing of Dubai’s opulent modern day architecture, which no terrorist in the Muslim world ever sees fit to bomb for some reason, you should […]

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That headline reads nicely, except for the Soldiers who died and their Families.  I could of written it like this: Vice President Dick Cheney’s Former Company’s Subsidiary is Electrocuting Soldiers in Iraq, but I didn’t… you can thank me later.
However, just as the Vice President could care less about America, it seems a transference of ideology has occured to his former […]

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*This is extremely long 
There is an argument that the current proposed and negotiated Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with Iraq is a treaty with Iraq and therein it must be authorized by the Congress of the United States as outlined by the Constitution of the United States.
The unfortunate reality is that a SOFA is a purely military […]

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The AP is reporting that America is making sure that the Egyptians tell Hamas to stop lobbing rockets into Israel and therein Israel would not incur into Gaza.  Hamas officials met with Egyptian intelligence officials in the Egyptian city of el-Arish, whilst in another part of the country, David Welch, the U.S. Middle East Envoy […]

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The President of Iran, the country we were suppose to attack, went to Iraq today and yesterday on an announced visit - planned for weeks in advance.  He noted that he didn’t need to come into Iraq under any veil of secrecy and that he was able to walk around Baghdad freely, even shunning his own […]

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The Pakistani government has come up with a few tales about who, how, and what killed the Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto.  The story she was ’so to speak’ buried with was that she died from a severe blow to the head.  The blow to the head came when her head hit the top […]

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Former Prime Minister Bhutto was assassinated earlier today by a gunmen who struck her neck and torso.  A few moments after the gunshots rang out a motorcycle driver laden with bombs blew himself up near Bhutto’s armoured car, killing 15 to 20 of her supporters.
Bhutto herself wasn’t always a peachy character.  Her legacy is wrapped with […]

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Yes its all that and among other things Thursday is my longest and most boring day.
I would like to, though, comment on the Mohammed Cartoon Saga. To clear up a few things 1) It is not “illegal” to have pictures of the Prophet 2) It is considered disrespectful to draw the Prophet in a fowl […]

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