[SandRat]

Ya Gotta LUV hearing words like this!

“I think (the terrorists) were testing us,” said Col. Joseph DiSalvo, commander of Coalition Forces in east Baghdad. “I imagine the only thing they will have learned by this is that they should not provoke us with small-arms fire; the outcome is almost always certain when terrorists try to engage us -- they die.”

[Billthedrill]

One thing I have found fascinating about this particular war and its effect on the military fighting it is the premium it is placing on marksmanship. Some of the journalists report that they can tell who's shooting by how it sounds - if it's full-auto it's the jihad jockeys, it it's aimed single-shot it's the Americans.

I do recall the latest fad in weapons procurement not so very long ago ran that everyone would be shooting stubby high-cyclical zip guns in the future, that "wall-o-bullets" was the way to go. It seems pretty clear that that's not what's working in Iraq.

[M1Tanker]

Yet another military press release that will get ZERO coverage by the MSM.

The military issues these every day. I really got steamed when the whole "Bush did nothing for Katrina" lies started from the Left. www.navy.mil, www.af.mil, and www.army.mil had story after story up about forces in the LA/Miss area and ships ALREADY providing support before the P.O.S Governor of LA and the criminal mayor of N.O. had time to think. If these media "experts' wanted to know what was going on Sunday during the hurricane and the Monday after, all they had to do was visit these websites to know the USS Bataan was on station in N.O., the USAF was moving supplies into the area, and the National Guard (117,000 of them) were mobilizing to provide aid. But then that would show the President in a good light....

Yet the Left just keeps lying and lying...