Category Archives: Iraq

Support the troops

One at a time: I know a young man who is in desperate need of help. His name is PFC Hunter Levine. He is 20 years old and hails from Houston, TX. He was in my company and was wounded on 9 May, 2008 while conducting combat operations in East Baghdad. He received a very [...]

The ‘Bush Lied” Lie Exposed

The last media outlet on Earth that you’d expect to expose one of the Left’s most cherished myths, did just that this morning. The Washington Post–yes, the POST, not the Times–actually published today an editorial titled “‘Bush Lied’? If Only It Were That Simple.” You could’ve knocked me over with a feather when I ran [...]

Haditha (hit?) piece on PBS Frontline tonight

Last night, I was at Michelle Malkin’s blog, reading an old post that opened my eyes on what really happened in Haditha. Which is basically that the whole thing was, according to a Marine intelligence report (released here via pdf), an “intentional propaganda ploy planned and paid for by Al Qaeda foreign fighters.” And of [...]

Troop-bashing lawyer faces the music tomorrow

As a veteran (Army) myself, this story rankles me. Sgt. Michael McNulty, a 26-year-old Marine from Chicago, had his car keyed allegedly by a jerkball lawyer as he visited a friend before he left for his second tour in Iraq. Charges against the lawyer, 55-year-old Jay Grodner, might be upgraded to a felony, and there’s [...]

Can we arrest Democrats for the same thing too?

The commander of a U.S. military prison in Iraq has been arrested for allegedly “aiding the enemy,” the military said. U.S. Army Lt. Col. William H. Steele, a senior commander of the Camp Cropper detention center west of Baghdad, has been transferred to Kuwait for the military equivalent of a grand jury proceeding, a military [...]