
My son is a Marine, and he just got back from 7 months of pure hell in Iraq. He is set to be deployed to Afghanistan in a year. He became a Marine to serve his country.
Gladiators who no longer salute CaesarSource: mwcnews.net
In a week, we, the people of this United States, should have a president-elect who will take the reins of the nation on January 20th.

To Pay Respects to 4 U.S. Marines that died in Anbar Province Iraq 5/2/08. May they Rest in Peace and may
they never be forgotten.
Semper Fi Marines - God Bless you~
Ana
A MARINE'S PRAYER ~
More Military Deaths in Some Years of Peace Than WarSource: FOXNews.com
More active members of the military died during two years of peacetime in the early 1980s than died during a two-year period of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a government report.
Robert Scheer: Dissent From the Front LinesSource: AlterNet.org
When will we listen to the troops? I'm not talking about soldiers used as props for a George Bush photo op, telling reporters what Washington wants to hear. The military is disciplined and thus accustomed, from Gen David Petraeus on down, to toeing the official line.
Who Lost Iraq? Source: RealClearPolitics
If the current debate over the United States' failure in Iraq is to yield constructive results, it will have to go beyond bumper-sticker conclusions
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The Great Iraq SwindleSource: Rolling Stone
Operation Iraqi Freedom, it turns out, was never a war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq. It was an invasion of the federal budget, and no occupying force in history has ever been this efficient.
House vote on Iraq – a lethal mistakeSource: WorldNetDaily
Al-Qaida could have only dreamed that, shortly after they used airplanes as missiles to take down the towers of the World Trade Center, prominent American politicians, journalists and bloggers would be arguing that American surrender was the best path to victory.
'Battlefield docs' hone skills in IraqSource: Multi-National Force - Iraq
BALAD AIR BASE - More than 40 "battlefield docs" - surgeons and physician assistants from around Iraq - converged at Air Force Theater Hospital May 21 here to hone their already razor-sharp surgical skills at the Tri-Service Extremity War Surgery Symposium.

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Wilmington, NC - The UNCW College Republicans and Young America's Foundation Present an evening with Lt. Col. Scott Rutter, on Thursday, November 9, 2006, from 6:00pm - 8:00pm in Cameron Hall Room 105 on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Saddam Ordered Suicide Attacks on U.S. TargetsSource: NewsMax
"A newly translated document from Saddam Hussein's intelligence files indicates that the Iraqi dictator ordered suicide attacks against U.S. targets six months before the 9/11 attacks."
Myths of IraqSource: RealClearPolitics
"During a recent visit to Baghdad, I saw an enormous failure. On the part of our media. The reality in the streets, day after day, bore little resemblance to the sensational claims of civil war and disaster in the headlines."
And the Oscar Goes to...Source: riverbendblog.blogspot.com
So… not to be outdone by Barbara Walters and Oprah Winfrey - we bring you the Baghdad Burning Oscar Special!! Except, for our award show I suggest we change the name of the little statuette from Oscar to something more local and familiar.

In case you didn't hear, Google has censored the Internet of The People's Republic of China, and of course, the United States of America declared war on Iraq on March 20, 2003.