Okay, Sometimes Ya Just Gotta Vent

Argghh! ^ | 7/3/08 | Maj. Donovan ( I think)

[Dawnsblood]

Since we don’t see a newspaper over here more than once every six weeks (hey, Stars & Stripes – what’s up with that, anyway?), I’m not even as minimally attuned as normal to what’s going on in the Land of Balmy Temperatures. However, I do get some inklings of what the buzz is from my li'l buddy, ry, who recently asked my thoughts on a subject he'd heard bruited about: “Why haven’t we gotten a better Iraqi Army for all the money we’ve spent?”

Ummmmm -- huh?

First, *we* didn’t get an Army -- Iraq did. Sure, we foot the bill -- just like we foot the bill for most of NATO during my growing-up years (pssst -- Marshall Plan, remember?), and for a lot of our other allies during their growing or reconstruction spurts (*waving hi to all our buddies in South Korea and Japan*) -- and Iraq is now an ally.

Second, everything else. Let’s take a look at the Army Iraq got.

[TigersEye]

Great news!

[singfreedom]

Great find, Dawn. The MSM would have us believe the Iraqi Army is a bust. Wonderful news from those who REALLY know.

[Dawnsblood]

Ping.

[Caipirabob]

Thanks for the post! Heck, if it wasn't for FReepers and a very "few good men and women" out there in the media, we'd never hear about the miraculous turnaround in Iraq and the progress being achieved by our finest over there.

[ripley]

“looking for scuzballs...”

rotflmao

(we have lots of those in the states...the democrat/socialist/revolutionaries, who are allied with al qaeda, in the u.s. congress.)

IMHO

[ishabibble]

>>— remember all those articles in the MSM about the cash donation the Iraqi *Army* made to California Wildfire Relief? About passing the hat for us while they and their families were getting killed just because they wanted an Iraq with a future?<<

So very touching, I had no idea. Thanks for sharing the good news!

[John of Argghhh]

I’m sorry it’s not clear - the post is from BillT, one of the three main co-bloggers at the Castle. He’s in Iraq as a State Dept contractor training the Iraqi AF.

Cheers,

John of Argghhh!

[Dawnsblood]

Thanks John, sorry for the error.