[Cannoneer No. 4]

Read more about SPC Roche here.

[ambrose]

bump!

[GeorgeBerryman]

Thanks for sharing this. I always like hearing the opinions of our fellas over there. And the link is appreciated! Thanks again!

[kimmie7]

bttt

One of my co-worker's daughter is in that group of MPs.
God bless them all.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

ping

[ScaniaBoy]

WOW!

Thanks for the post!

ScaniaBoy

[Elkiejg]

Thanks for posting this inspiring article. The following bothered me though:

Sadr's Mahdi Army was backed by extensive foreign fighters and a huge amount support. Iran's formidable Al-Quds Army (named for the conquest of Jerusalem, Israel) directly assisted their attacks against us. They trained some 1,200 of Sadr's fighters at three camps they ran along the Iran-Iraq border at Qasr Shireen, 'Ilam, and Hamid. This was backed by what one Iranian defector to us has said was $70 million dollars a month given by Iranian agents to our enemies -- from which Sadr's forces were directly funded in just the past few months by up to $80 million more. The Iranian Embassy distributed some 400 satellite phones in Baghdad to Sadr's forces, while 2,700 apartments and rooms were rented in Karbala and Najaf as safe houses. Sadr's ability to influence the Iraqi people was further enhanced by 300 "reporters" and "technicians" working for his newspaper, radio and television networks -- persons who are actually members of the Al-Quds Army and Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards.

If they know where these training camps are, why don't they blow them up? Why isn't the Administration and/or State doing more to bring pressure on Iran for their support? Or if they are - and it's not working - why not do more in relation to Iran?

[exnavy]

Praying for our troops.

[MEG33]

I am so grateful for those who serve our country....Thank you for this great post...

[BigSkyFreeper]

[carl in alaska]

Bump for one incredible post.

(Hey 60 Minutes, I remember your rediculous show about the Bradley vehicle. You were wrong....the Bradley turned out to be a great fighting vehicle. Now admit it.)

[GBA]

Imagine a world where JOURNALISTS would actually REPORT the news from the front. Imagine...b/c it's certainly not the world we live in today.

Thanks for posting this. I learned more from reading it than I have from a month of news from Media, Inc.

But, but...what about the prison scandal??? Isn't that what's important???

[Happy2BMe]

"You saw the most recent bombings that targeted Iraqis trying to join the new police and military services. There is no denying that it is the Iraqi people who are under attack by evil terrorism. Some people get confused when they hear that other Iraqis are participating in these attacks, as if that means all Iraqis are against us. But wasn't Timothy McVeigh an American, and in fact a combat engineer in the Army just like me? His terrorist attack in Oklahoma City never meant that Americans supported him, so why should the terrorism of a few demented Iraqis working with foreign terrorists mean more?"

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Interesting analogy coming from an American soldier while serving in Iraq. He compares Timothy McVeigh and his counterparts sabotaging the transition of power for the new Iraqi government.

[GBA]

"The challenges are huge, and the prospects for failure are great, but we are doing the right thing and are on the right track. Every day we are making progress, and these changes are influencing the entire Arab world. This is no small matter."

This is why George W. Bush is a leader and why history will remember him well, as history has remembered Reagan, FDR and Lincoln. Like the great presidents of the past, Bush has taken on the enormous challenge the times have presented him and is doing the right thing.

In contrast, Clinton looked for a legacy, found Monica and ran away from the same challenge that Bush now must deal with. May history remember them both.

[JOE43270]

Thanks for this. Our people are the Best of the Best. Rodiguez cut his cast off and stayed. These people are the Greatest. These people make us the Greatest Nation on earth. God Bless them all and God Bless America.

[JOE43270]

Thanks for this. Our people are the Best of the Best. Rodiguez cut his cast off and stayed. These people are the Greatest. These people make us the Greatest Nation on earth. God Bless them all and God Bless America.

[Quix]

GREAT. THANKS.

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[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this great thread.

You know that our warriors are winning when the lunatic mediots around the world react in the manner they have for the past year.

[MarMema]

We also faced Chechen snipers in Sadr's forces who were being paid anywhere from $500 to $10,000, depending on differing accounts, for each American soldier they hit. One sniper hit five soldiers in less then a minute-and-a-half, killing one with a shot in the neck. These mercenaries were sending this money back to Al-Qaeda-allied guerrillas in Chechnya to fight the Russians.

Courtesy phone for President Putin.

[MarMema]

Contrary to the fudging news, Karbala, Najaf and Kufa have all been abandoned by the Mahdi Army. The local people turned on them, sometimes violently. Today local Iraqi forces secure those cities while the U.S. military is present to support them.

This is really really a wonderful read, and I especially liked this part. Thank you for posting this. God Bless our soldiers and keep them safe!!!

[Tennessean4Bush]

Awesome article. Just what I needed.