Well, we've reached what the Left seems to regard as a magic number; we've lost the 2,000th service member in Iraq. The anti-war crowd seems to believe that this is the number that will spark a full-fledged cry from the American people to abandon the Iraqi's to their own devices.

I think the troops feel differently; as the story states:

"Recent public opinion polls show that Americans increasingly favor an early withdrawal of troops, but soldiers in Iraq said the rising death toll stiffened their resolve and would likely make pulling out more difficult."

We need to pull the gloves off and let the troops conduct a full out-balls to the wall WAR and forget the niceties of whether or not the Arab street won't like us any more. We have made great strides in Iraq, despite what the LSM has been peddling. They try to call it a morass, even though we have rebuilt a quarter of the infrastucture, and the Iraqi's have voted to enact a democratic constitution. The left says "too little-too late" and "why has it taken so long"?; when if they looked at our own history, they'de find that the Iraqis are almost eight years ahead of where we were in the founding of our own country.

There will many problems and setbacks in the years to come, but the seed has been planted, and with the proper care, it will grow into a mighty tree. A tree that will bear witness to the sacrifices made, both by our brave men and women, but by the Iraqi people themselves; we owe it to those that gave the last measure to continue to tend the tree of Liberty untill it has become fully rooted and is capable of resisting the storms that may rage around it.

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Yep Iraq is a QUAGMIRE. The MSM tells us this every day. THEY say that we've boosted Al Qaeda's forces,and they're growing stonger every day. But is it true?
HERE'S a recent briefing by Colonel Robert Brown, Commander of The 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, Multinational Force-Northwest

Here's the interesting part:

One of the great pieces of information we got recently is 80 percent of the al Qaeda network in the north has been devastated. And those are not our figures, those came from the last six leaders in Mosul , al Qaeda leaders that we captured; they informed us of that. We also had a letter that was captured from Abu Zaid (sp) going to Zarqawi . We recently killed Zaid (sp) and we had that letter, and it also talked about the desperate situation for the al Qaeda and the insurgents in Mosul and in the north. And then also, sources we have inside the al Qaeda network up here have also informed us of that. (emp. mine D)

We ARE gaining ground in Iraq, WE ARE beating the "Insurgants" Islamofacists in Iraq. DON"T let the MSM do as they did in Viet Nam and make us snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by fomenting a lack of will, and a resolve to win, in the American populace.

DO NOT let 1800+ soldiers have their final sacrifice be wasted because of unwarrented fear and misinformation. The fight is not over, there will be furthur sacrfices and hardships, but we can see that our actions are having their desired effect, and if we can maintain our resolve, we will overcome the enemy.

H/T to Misha at the Rottweiler for the link

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The 3 Present Day Variations of the Medal Of Honor, Army,Navy, and Air Force (the Marines and Coast Guard share the Navy version):

Yesterday was the 87th anniversery of Sgt. Alvin York's induction into an elite group; those that have earned our nations highest military award, the Congressional Medal of Honor. Sgt. York was awarded the medal for leading seven men against German troops, capturing or killing more than 150 German soldiers.

Since it's inception on Dec. 9, 1861 , it's an honor that has been presented only 3,459 times.

The first Medal of Honor was earned by Army assistant surgeon Bernard J.D. Irwin for his actions on the 13th of Feb. 1861,when he rescued 60 soldiers of 2d Lt. George Bascom's unit at Apache Pass, AZ.  Irwin received the award in 1894. The first M'soH ever presented were received by six of the surviving members of Andrew's Raiders, on the 25 of March, 1863, by then Secretary of War Edwin Stanton.

The standards for receiving the medal are extremely high, the BASIC requirements are that the candidate "exhibits conspicuous and intrepid bravery at the risk of life, above and beyond the call of duty,in combat against an armed enemy force". At the present time, there are 121 surviving MoH recipients.

Number of Medals awarded to date, broken down to service:

Army: 2,357
Navy: 744
USMC: 300
USAF: 17
USCG: 1
Unknowns: 9

I thought it might be fun to see how much you might know about the Medal of Honor.

Here's seven questions, see how you do. The answers will be below the fold, no fair peeking! Don't look until after you've written the comment. To make it simple, they are in true or false form.

1. When drafted, Alvin York applied for concientious objector status.

2. No woman has been awarded the Medal of Honor.

3. The first Black American to recieve the award fought in Viet Nam.

4. The Medal of Honor has been awarded in every major conflict since the Civil War.

5. The Medal of Honor has never been awarded to a foreign born recipient.

6. No recipient has ever been awarded more than one MoH.

7. The Medal of Honor was the only medal awarded during the Civil War.

Want to learn more about the Medal of Honor? GO HERE. more...

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The USAF has released information on its newest weapon it the fight against Islamofacists. Dubbed the P-MKM (Porcine Muslim Killer Missile).

It does require a B-52 to deploy, as the porcine elements needs room to move during transport to remain happy, and as we all know, a happy missile is an accurate missile.

Hopefully the first deployemt will help end the hostilities, as even those of the enemy not killed out right by the esplosive power of the missile will become so anguished by being thought "unclean", they will be forced to suicide to regain their honor.

Here's a declassified photo of an early deployment test:

H/T to Jaybear for obtaining the excellant photo from the AF Testing Dept.

It's a good thing they got the bugs worked out....I got my hands on the recording of the first model test....it's not pretty:

No ignition..and the guidence system went totally haywire right after release...but look at that damned thing GO! Maybe this beta version was meant to make the enemy dizzy enough to make easy targets...

H/T to Caspian for the Beta test video..

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My nephew SlagleRock put up a post about one of the latest causelties in the fight against Islamofacism.

As he said in his e-mail to me, the fact that it was a women doesn't make her any more special than any of the others that have paid the ultimate price, but it did affect him just a little bit more than usual because she was "one of his own" in the SF MOS.

He requests that you spend a few moments and leave your thought's in the comments on his post, to be relayed to the family. It might bring a little comfort to them in their hour of grief to know that they aren't the only ones to feel the loss. She gave her all, she's earned our respect.

Rest in Peace, Airman Jacobson. May God's love enfold you, and grant you blue skies and an unlimited ceiling.

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