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just got this in the email:

Subject: Update from Beautiful Downtown Baghdad

Am guessing all you see on the news media is the same hype we are seeing here. They talk about some single violent act and run film of the last five violent acts. It's not as bad as it looks. So thought I'd share this with you this morning.

Last night as I was preparing to head for the barn, the bad guys threw three rockets our way, all three impacting inside the Green Zone. No one injured that we know of. You'll hear MSNBC's Dr. Bob Arnot call them three mortar rounds, but he's wrong as usual.

One of them went off as an air burst near the main parking lot about 1,000 yards from the Presidential Palace. There were about 100 vehicles in the lot at that time of night, 20 vehicles were damaged, and no gas tanks exploded. Obviously, they are just pointing the rockets in the general direction and hoping they'll hit something. That's typical of the gang that can't shoot straight.

Earlier yesterday a small car engaged one of our Bradley Fighting Vehicles in small arms fire, one of three Bradleys on the road. When the Bradley fired back, they abandoned the car and jumped on a truck that came down a side road. Apparently it was someone's screwy idea of a three truck ambush, because two other trucks appeared and drove at the Bradleys at a high rate of speed. Now, the Bradley is a highly armored, tracked vehicle that can spew grenades off all four corners at once, and automated 25mm bullets, including HE (high explosive) rounds. The trucks are, well, trucks. Result of that encounter, three destroyed trucks, 5 bad guys killed, 5 wounded. An amazing sidelight was that an Army Captain was shot square in the head, but he was wearing his helmet, so he has a great souvenir.

Anyway, the numbers of attrition are wildly in our favor, regardless of what the news media implies. They are trying really hard to put a political spin on absolutely everything over here. To us here, they couldn't look more ridiculous sometimes with their posturing and postulating.

Instead of sitting back in defensive positions, our forces here are now on the offensive, so you can expect to see more violent confrontations. But in every one of them, the bad guys are losing men and equipment they really can't afford to lose. And the Iraqi people more and more are turning them in. So we wish the news media would report that, too. The Iraqi people want us here, and they wish the Iranians, Syrians and Jordanians would stay out of here.

Business is really picking up in the city, they are cleaning the streets, rebuilding the shops, and free enterprise is beginning to catch on, but slowly. For most of their lives, someone has told them what to do, how much they can charge, what they can grow, build, and do. There are hundreds of great stories out here, if I were just working for a news agency that would run them.

By the way, a couple of Iraqi lads learned about Apache helicopters yesterday. They had set off an explosion spotted by two Apaches running north above the highway out of Baghdad yesterday. And right behind the explosion they saw these two lads on two motorcycles moving at top speed away from it. The cyclists split up, and so did the Apaches. But one of the lads dumped his cycle in his front yard and ran in the house. The Apache then made his cycle disappear in a puff of smoke and waited on station for the ground troops and local police to arrive. After all, he wasn't going anywhere, this time. Ahhhh, those trigger happy Apache pilots. Bet they are the envy of any police helicopter pilot in any U.S. metropolitan city. Can't you just see that happening in New York City?

Instead of sitting back in defensive positions, our forces here are now on the offensive, so you can expect to see more violent confrontations. But in every one of them, the bad guys are losing men and equipment they really can't afford to lose. And the Iraqi people more and more are turning them in. So we wish the news media would report that, too. The Iraqi people want us here, and they wish the Iranians, Syrians and Jordanians would stay out of here.

Business is really picking up in the city, they are cleaning the streets, rebuilding the shops, and free enterprise is beginning to catch on, but slowly. For most of their lives, someone has told them what to do, how much they can charge, what they can grow, build, and do. There are hundreds of great stories out here, if I were just working for a news agency that would run them.

Arm those folks, and help them take their country back from the Saddamites and foreign Jihadist American haters. It'll prove we trust them as brothers and as a fellow free people.

Otherwise it'll prove we don't.

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Instead of sitting back in defensive positions, our forces here are now on the offensive, so you can expect to see more violent confrontations. But in every one of them, the bad guys are losing men and equipment they really can't afford to lose. And the Iraqi people more and more are turning them in. So we wish the news media would report that, too. The Iraqi people want us here, and they wish the Iranians, Syrians and Jordanians would stay out of here.

Thank you for the reality update, it just made my day.

G-d Bless America and G-d Bless American Soldiers.