[2timothy3.16]

bump and thanks.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thanks, Ex-Dem. Great letter. Thanks to Chron Watch for giving the troops another voice.

 Thanks, Tonkin!

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[Onelifetogive]

So the next time you listen to the presidential contenders and media...

This brave soldier need not worry about me ever doing that!!!

[TomB]

"Are we there yet?"

[Eala]

In spite of what you hear from the hyped up election year media, we are winning this fight.

Thanks for posting this! We need this kind of feedback to fight the media's onslaught.

[GOPJ]

How indeed?

This war is about ending terrorism and the culture that breeds it. To do that, we had to come to the source. Some say that there was absolutely no connection between terrorism and Saddam's regime. If that's so, how did Abu Nidal, the most notorious terrorist of the 80's and 90's, find sanctuary here in Baghdad until he died last year? How did Ansar Al Islam, a radical surrogate of Al Queda, operate training camps in Northern Iraq until 83 of them were killed by US Special Operation Forces. How was it that our forces found Al Queda training materials including recipes for bio toxins here? Who bombed the Jordanian embassy, the UN building, and the Shia mosque in Al Najaf?

[mewzilla]

Thanks for the post! Wish someone would tatoo this on Claire Shipman's forehead.

[BigShinyPackard]

Thanks for posting this!

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

When I read this in a local left-leaning paper I knew right off that the media is way off on the situation in Iraq. This paper is from Arcata California, a city that gives true meaning to "The Left Coast". I excerpted this. The whole article is a good read.

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/090403/cover0904.html

'People loved us'
JOSH INGRAM, 20, a graduate of Arcata High School, is a machine gun squad leader in the 3rd Battalion of the United States Marines. Like thousands of American soldiers, he's spent much of the year in the Middle East, first in Kuwait -- the invasion point -- and then in Iraq, which fell in three weeks of fighting in late March and early April.

On July 31, Ingram returned to Humboldt County to help care for his father, who is battling cancer. While here, he is working with the local Marine recruiting office and speaking to local service groups about his experiences