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Would it be permissible to excerpt this account to my local forum? If so, the very vocal Liberals there will be hushed into silence!

Also, I'm curious as to when did you first start posting to FR from Iraq?

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Would it be permissible to excerpt this account to my local forum? If so, the very vocal Liberals there will be hushed into silence!

Of course! I'm flattered. :)

Also, I'm curious as to when did you first start posting to FR from Iraq?

January 2004. I've posted through the bombings, the Battle of Fallujah, the first election, the night an ammo dump got hit by a mortar and stuff was blowing up all around us, the so-called "civil war" (it wasn't one) and I've refuted the media's BS on here countless times.