[Cannoneer No. 4]

You are supposed to feel depressed and hopeless about the war. A great deal of effort and energy and money is expended to ensure that. The will and morale of the domestic target audience is under relentless attack 24/7/365.

But what if you refused to cooperate?

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Ping!

Radigan's Raiders InfoWarrior Ping List is kept by MizSterious. Freepmail her to get on our off it.

Be alert. America needs more lerts. We need more IO Auxiliaries, too.

[Izzy Dunne]

I don’t see what the connection to Google is.

[Bulldawg Fan]

So these murderers are losing everywhere except in the American surrender media and in the Democratic halls of Congress?

Good news as far as it goes, but we still have our own 5th column of traitors in America to deal with.

[redgolum]

For later read.

We are losing the propaganda war.

[angkor]

Can Petraeus Pull It Off?
A report on the progress of our arms in Baghdad, Baqubah, Ramadi, and Falluja.
by Max Boot
04/30/2007, Volume 012, Issue 31

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/551cokdv.asp?pg=2

[snip]

An important aspect of this campaign has been waged largely out of the limelight by Coalition and Iraqi Special Forces. Every night, these “operators” stage precision raids based on accurate intelligence that capture or kill Shiite and Sunni extremists at scant cost to themselves. The most valuable targets are “serviced” by a Joint Special Operations Command task force known as OCF-I, commanded by Lieutenant General Stan McChrystal. OCF-I stands for Other Coalition Forces-Iraq, a counterpoint to the common military euphemism for the CIA: OGA, or Other Government Agency. OCF-I is made up of “Tier 1” Special Forces—the best “direct action” specialists from such elite outfits as Delta Force, the Navy SEALs, the Air Force “Night Stalkers,” and the British SAS. It was through their efforts that Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, was killed last year. (In the current Atlantic Monthly, Mark Bowden offers a revealing—perhaps overly revealing—behind-the-scenes reconstruction of how this operation worked.) Their efforts are complemented by the larger Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force made up primarily of Army Special Forces (Green Berets) working closely with the Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF) Brigade.

With more than 2,000 soldiers, ISOF has proven itself to be the most tactically skilled and politically reliable unit in the entire Iraqi Security Forces. I got to meet some of its personnel at their heavily guarded compound near Baghdad airport. Many senior officers live on base with their families for fear of being killed if they go back to their old neighborhoods. Indeed, last year a number of ISOF soldiers were kidnapped and killed while off duty. If this has discouraged the remainder, I saw no sign of it.

[Islander7]

Thanks for the link

[CaptRon]

There aren't enough jobs for all those religion majors

So of course, given their training, the only logical course of action is to go blow somebody up.