A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention.
Outlaw 13 writes Events Other Than IEDs In Iraq “Every day brave men and women are putting their lives on the line around the world trying to rid us of some of the most evil people mankind has ever known. You'd never know it from a casual reading of most media sources.
From an OPSEC point of view I can understand the reluctance to disclose operations because of the fear that the targeted individuals will deduct what we are up to based on the information disclosed.”
Captain Z writes Eat Shit, Brian Kelleher. Eat. My. Shit. “We can use the back of my other restaurant," he said, or he can screen off part of a ballroom." --Brian Kelleher, as quoted in the Washington Post (Emphasis added)
God forbid, we treat them like human beings. After all, they're cripples. If we start letting them be seen out in public, well, soon they might start showing up regularly. I mean, sure they can eat here, but only where they can't be seen. We can make it work though. We just have to get these "Whites Only/Coloreds Only" signs refurbished.”
Serving the People of Iraq writes Abu Ghraib and the Need for Moral Clarity “The Abu Ghraib prison scandal has been out of the news for a while, but its memory will not easily be forgotten, nor should it be. Several American service men and women have been appropriately punished, while others probably should have been as well.”
Fun With Hand Grenades writes Mi culo no es bueno “A while back we did a mission with the intent of meeting with a village leader, called a Muqtar (pronounced mook-tar and most likely spelled wrong). Meeting with the Muqtar consists of asking if they need anything we can hook them up with, finding out what they know about local terrorist cells and weapons caches, and usually accomplishing absolutely nothing. I’m standing outside the Muqtar’s little mud hut shooting the shit with my medic and one of the other dismounts, more or less standing guard in case someone wanted to come in and wax our Lieutenant.”
Dafydd writes United 93 - a Meditation “We went to see the movie today (Sunday), yet this isn't a review. Indeed, it's impossible to "review" this movie, because it's not a movie in the normal sense of the word: there is no plot per se, no story, very little acting. But it is compelling to the point of anxiety in some viewers.
It squrims around, it turns about and swallows its own tail; this piece, I mean -- I write it as it bubbles up, and I will leave it unedited, warts and all.”
Blackfive writes 37 cents “I got an email from Sandi Hammersly, who some of us were lucky enough to meet at the DC conference. She had a piece she wrote, but she doesn't have a blog....yet.
Welcome to the game Sandi:37¢ was the cost of the stamp that went on a letter to a soldier in Iraq – a soldier whose post I had read on AnySoldier.com the previous night. A post that so haunted me that I couldn’t get it out of my mind. It was a post that saw me wide awake at dawn and writing a letter to him on May 28, 2005.”
Andi of Andi’s World writes The War Tapes: A MUST SEE “Blogging has revolutionized the way that information is now being disseminated. Deborah Scranton has ramped the idea of citizen journalism up a few notches with her film The War Tapes. Rather than embed with a unit, Deborah went outside the box and came up with the idea of supplying soldiers with video cameras, a revolutionary concept. Soldiers from a New Hampshire National Guard Unit agreed to work with Deborah. During their deployment to Iraq, they captured the war in all its glory, and all its horror. What you see is what you get and one can hardly refute raw footage from the front lines, something which lends great legitimacy to this film.”
Omar at Iraq The Model writes No one wants the interior ministry now! “When (Jawad) Noori al-Maliki appeared as a strong candidate for becoming Iraq's new PM we wrote 'Jawad who?' because we knew very little about the man's background, qualifications or visions for Iraq and we still know little until this moment and it really came as a surprise to us (in not a bad way) that he was able to win the support of the US and UK a well as the satisfaction of other parliamentary blocs or at least their conditional acceptance.”
Blonde Sagacity writes It's BOYCOTT Day... “Once again "the immigrants" and their supporters have it all wrong. NO ONE IS AGAINST IMMIGRATION --ALL of our Great grandparents, grandparents and parents were immigrants at one time. The problem is with ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.”
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