The news keeps “reporting” on how the surge is working. Well, no shit it’s working. You send soldiers and Marines into Iraq without enough man power to do their jobs properly and things go poorly. You increase the troop levels and their performance improves.
They sent 300,000 troops into Iraq initially and downgraded that to around [...]

I guess it’s not all bad news coming from Iraq. It seems that the violence is down and things are becoming more and more stable.
Going to Iraq was not a good decision but we’ve now got shit a load of lemons and need to make some lemonade. If Iraq succeeds in the long run, it [...]

Hippy nut jobs from Australia and England are cruising around looking for Japanese whalers and tossing a form of acid onto their ships. They claim they’ve been able to stop them for four and half weeks but I say big deal.
Throwing acid onto some whaling ship isn’t a long term solution and I think [...]

It must be a slow news day since this article had the following to say
“Not smoking, regular exercise, maintaining normal weight, and avoiding diabetes and high blood pressure seem to be the secrets of living to age 90, researchers say.”
Are you serious? Why not add “avoiding putting a shotgun in your mouth will help [...]

Damn over hyped and sensationalized news coverage. ABC has a story about some woman being raped in Iraq which sounds pretty fucking fishy.
First she claims that some men raped her and put her in a shipping container in a KBR camp inside of the Green Zone. The Green Zone isn’t that big and [...]

From a recent news article…
The Pentagon already has approval to buy 8,000 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles. The $11 billion would allow for the purchase of an additional 7,000. The vehicles have V-shaped hulls and raised chassis to deflect the force of improvised explosive devices, or roadside bombs.
Troops in MRAPs are as much as [...]