Good to see without the filter for once.

It sounds more hopeful than the MSM will ever admit. I do expect all he** to break loose just before the elections, especially as W's number continue to improve.

Slightly OT, last night the History Channel replayed the piece about the SS Werewolves who contined to fight after the armistice. They bombed trains, assassinated allied soldiers, intimidated & murdered Germans working for the occupation, and did a lot of the same stuff the thugs in Iraq are doing today (although Germany did not suffer from thugs next door running in to help the SS). It gave me optimism for Iraq. Sure, there's going to be more violence. But it will eventually go away, and Iraq will prosper. In the meantime blogs like this guy's can help us all wade through the MSM b.s.

It's a damned shame that the media won't tell us the truth. Even the rabidly right wing Fox News doesn't tell us 10% of what we hear from the Iraqi bloggers and the Milblogs.

If only they would...

#2 kathryn

I do expect all he** to break loose just before the elections

Well, all hell's been breaking loose. I think many of the brutal bombings in recent months have been just as much a part of a strategy to unseat Bush as anything else. I've noticed Saudi Arabia's been quieter. I've chalked that up to Saudi crackdowns that have busted some terrorists, and chased others off into (unfortunately) Iraq.

Greyhawk was nice enough to blogroll me, but I can't even get his site to take my comments. It's a weird glitch of some kind. Maybe my cookies have been tossed.

Anyway, he's one of the most important milblogs I've found. Everyone should be reading him, especially now.

Thank You Charles ..

#4 Powderfinger

I agree. The only TV news I watch is local Fox station. But I am spending more and more time scanning the news on the computer.

My two favorites are DRUDGE and WORLDNETDAILY.COM along with LITTLE GREEN FOOTBALLS of course.

OT The French crushing of dissent continues:
Papillon (1973)
CAST: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory.
Director: Franklin Schaffner.

[Link: www.turnerclassicmovies.com...]

Favorites. Click. Add to Favorites. Click. Mudville Gazette. Ok. Click.
Back to read more...
This is great!

The Mudville Gazette is wonderful. I'm saving a few for tomorrow morning with coffee. Thanks Charles! Thanks to Grayhawk and Mrs. Grayhawk too!

Reading Greyhawk really makes me wonder as to how the events in Iraq would be reported by the MSM if the only thing different was that a Democrat was in the White House.

I am 10000% certain that the words, "quagmire, disaster, failure", et al, would not be uttered and that this would be the "right war, for the right cause at the right time".

Michael Moore would probably be selling War Bonds and the Dixie Chicks, Springsteen, Cher and Linda Ronstadt would probably all be doing USO tours.

But this is not the case because George W. is in the White House and, God willing, he will be there for another four years. I remembered and was struck by the original JFK's words on how we do the things we do because they are not easy; but because they are right. Thank you, Lord, that the grown-ups are in charge!

I'm watching Midway on the History channel right now. It looks like a quagmire. I'm glad the MSM isn't there or we'd be having anti-war protests at home. But wait... what's that?... Why it's Lt(JG) Kerry in a swift boat with his 12 Ga. and a magic hat!! Thank God! All is not lost!!

Here he comes to save the day!

G.Galvan

Thank you . good movie. New wide screen TV :}

Greyhawk is a mensch and a national treasure.

OT: Got a call from the Michigan Dhimocratic Party last weekend asking if they could convince me to support Kerry. I asked how they planned to convince me to stop loving my family and my country enough to want to see them preserved. This weekend, my wife got the call (the moonbats are persistent here in the People's Republic of Ann Arbor). She politely told them their calls were unwelcome and that if they called again there was only a 50-50 chance they would get the nice grown-up! (My daughter's highly territorial bichon frise tried to go all Cujo on the Fat Chicks for Kerry rep who came to our door last month, prompting the lefty coed to quip, "Your dog must be a Republican." The LOML replied, "I expect so. He's an excellent judge of character." Merciful heavens, I'm a lucky man!)

#15 LOL

All LFGers if you haven't read this it is a must read.

It was posted by a soldier in Iraq it gives true insight into what it is like being in a war zone. This post really messed me up.

Combat Lifesaver

His comparison of present day Iraq with the Old West was the first fresh perspective I've read in a long while. Nicelink.

Greyhawk's is exceedingly well-written material. It's refreshing, after all that insipid juvenile UPI-AP-Reuters pabulum.

My only brother was in the Gulf War, with the Marines. I still have a small pile of Iraqi sand he mailed to me in a letter, a little pile of powdery tan-colored dust which I still keep in a glass container in front of an icon of Christ Pantokrator. It's a tangible reminder to keep not only that land in remembrance during prayer, but all others, and all those noble warriors who have helped and are helping to free and protect others from evil. Strength, grace, victory, and many years to all of you!!!

For those who have not seen this other source...

iraqthemodel.com

The MSM is trying to make this conflict into a Viet Nam. We stopped the flow of communism there and we will stop the flow of hate in the middle east. #8 Put FrontPage on your list also. One more thought, better to have the insurgents battling our forces there then here.

Sounds like paradie. 49 Iraqi soldiers murdered today, a state department official killed in a missile attack and a Bulgarian soldier killed by a roadside bomb. But it's all being made up by a vast conspiracy to elect Kerry. Obviously things in Iraq are going swell. Look., even the conservative news services like Fox and the WSJ are reporting these horror stories. They aren't electioneering for Kerry. They're not all making it up. Could it be you guys are existing in a parallel universe, utterly divorced from reality? I really think so, and I suggest you emerge from your Alice in Wonderland world as soon as you can, because shrub is about to be tossed out of office, and there's nothing you can do except try dirty tricks at the polls. And if that's the scenario, we're guaranteed 4 more years of unbearable division and partisanship, a tragic scenario for a country that was so unified three short years ago.