Mike is a mole. I challenged him on some crazy stuff he said over a year ago, and he said he could never be zotted because he comes from a legit .mil address. Your instincts are correct.
Mike is a FRiend and a hero. He and my son were both at Camp Victory........well, Mike was in the air, I think, and my son was on the ground taking mortar fire. (I've shared with him a picture my son took of a palace causeway that he helped bomb).
The ones I question here, and elsewhere, are those who prefer to trust other sources (like the MSM?) than the Generals in the field, and the soldiers who have been in theatre about what's going on in Iraq.