[PatrioticCowboy]

Prayers Heavenward for the brave soldiers and their families.

May the Lord comfort them

[PatrioticCowboy]

Sadly, your services are needed here

[PatrioticCowboy]

ping

[PatrioticCowboy]

This mortar attack looks like an attempt to spring these prisoners out of prison.

FARC in Colombia has used rockets and improvised mortars a lot to over-run prison security to break their comrades out

[PISANO]

I just wish PEOPLE knew we are in a WAR. A War to preserve the Western Civilisation. This constant drumbeat of scoring deaths of our troops is minimizing their sacrifice to a scorecard and reducing their deaths to a statistic that does harm to those on the front lines and to those back home praying for their loved ones return.

[TomB]

Do you post ANYTHING other than stories of the killed or injured in Iraq since you joined last month?

How many threads have you started on the "quagmire"? 40? 50?

Read this article:

Media's Dark Cloud a Danger (Falsely bleak reports reduce our chances of success in Iraq)

"These are goals worthy of a fight, of sacrifice, of more lives lost now to save thousands, perhaps tens or hundreds of thousands in the future. In Mosul last Monday, a colonel in the 101st Airborne put it to me quite simply: "Sir, this is worth doing." No one I spoke with said anything different. And I spoke with all ranks.

But there will be more Blumbergs killed in action, many more. So it is worth doing only if we have a reasonable chance of success. And we do, but I'm afraid the news media are hurting our chances. They are dwelling upon the mistakes, the ambushes, the soldiers killed, the wounded, the Blumbergs. Fair enough. But it is not balancing this bad news with "the rest of the story," the progress made daily, the good news. The falsely bleak picture weakens our national resolve, discourages Iraqi cooperation and emboldens our enemy.

I question your motives.