Washington DC Examiner9 August 2007 -There’s good news from Iraq, which has produced almost nothing but bad news since the 2003 invasion. The U.S. military surge, widely denounced as a last-ditch effort by an embattled, lame-duck president fighting an un-winnable civil war, is working. Even as vocal a war critic as Deputy Senate Majority Leader
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Believe it or not, (I hardly can) this was actually published in a 30 July NYT OpEd piece: A War We Just Might Win By MICHAEL E. O’HANLON and KENNETH M. POLLACK Published: July 30, 2007 Washington VIEWED from Iraq, where we just spent eight days meeting with American and Iraqi military and civilian personnel,
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Hey MSM, are you paying attention?: The Battle for Baqubah (or “Baqouba” according to the story above) is still underway. Small TICs [Troops In Contact] continue to occur, but those enemy attacks have had little effect since combat kicked off on 19 June. As of 30 July, we lost one soldier, while the enemy losses
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More good news you won’t get in the MSM: Moving Forward in Iraq The “surge” is working. Will Washington allow the current progress to continue? BY KIMBERLY KAGAN Wednesday, July 11, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT In Washington perception is often mistaken for reality. And as Congress prepares for a fresh debate on Iraq, the perception
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UPDATE 29 June, 2009 I received correspondence from Mrs. John Hatley (in the comments). UPDATE 18 April, 2009 Hat tip to Jonn at This Aint Hell: http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=9817 1SG John Hatley, the senior NCO of fabulist Scott Beauchamp’s unit, was convicted yesterday of the murder of four Iraqis and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility
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The New Republic has been publishing what it calls “dispatches” from a Soldier in Iraq by the name of “Scott Thomas”. The column, entitled “Shock Troops”, described a litany of deplorable behavior on the part of some Soldiers in his unit. He claimed he witnessed them insulting a disfigured woman in a mess hall who
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