My cousin just got back from Iraq last week. He spent part of last summer convalescing at that fabulous vacation spot Fort Knox from wounds received in theater. He couldn’t wait to get back to his troops (he spent Gulf War I floating in the Persian Gulf, but this time he got to lead his troops on the ground). At Christmastime he wrote all us friends and family back in the US and told us not to send any presents for the troops. They were doing fine. But what they really wanted, needed in fact, were paper notebooks and pencils for the local Iraqi children, since the schools couldn’t afford them.

Meanwhile, Dan Rather and the NYT (heck, the entire Mainstream Media) were busy telling us how demoralized the troops were over in Iraq, how they hated being there, how much the Iraqis hated us because we were only killing civilians, and all sorts of tripe like that.

And Liberal activists like Gus (a troll commonly found lurking around Mlah’s place) were taking to the streets in protest, spitting on soldiers and calling them baby-killers (all the while demanding that we ignore the evidence we see and consider the Liberals to be “for the troops” or else!) and demanding that W stop this insane exchange of “blood for oil.”

Then January rolls around, more Iraqis vote (per capita) than even bother to do so in the US, and the Liberals all cry foul. It’s a set-up, Wolfowitz somehow manipulated the results, the Pentagon is using some sort of Propaganda beam to make people THINK they were voting when they really didn’t leave their houses for fear of getting killed (not by the Terrorists, but by the Americans, of course). Then the Pentagon snuck crack teams of Delta Force commandos into their homes while they were sleeping and smeared purple ink on their fingers. THAT ELECTION COULD NOT HAVE BEEN REAL, because it negated every thing the Leftists had been saying about Iraq and the Middle East for years!!!!

And we still haven’t seen any of that cheap oil the Liberals tell us are supposed to be our reward for invading the timid, non-offensive country lead by that benevolent leader Saddam Hussein. I have to pay $2.05 per gallon to fill up my SUV!

Oh, and my cousin wanted me to send more notebooks and pencils, because the Iraqi kids were going to school so much they used up the other supplies available to them.

The obvious conclusion the Liberals tell us we must take from all of this is that the American invasion of Iraq has done absolutely no good for the Iraqi people, and has made more people than ever hate us, and has merely served to make ours a Hollow Army like we had following that Morass, the Quagmire in Vietnam.

Oh, and maybe we’d get a wider view of what’s going on in Iraq IF IT WERE SAFE TO LEAVE THE FREAKIN GREEN ZONE!

Gus, maybe if you spent any time in IRAQ, you might actually have a friggin clue about what you’re yapping! I know that CNN wasn’t reporting the good stuff we were doing in Iraq while I was there because I had a 2 star general walking into my office and telling my coworkers that we needed to make sure CNN wasn’t just reporting on deaths.
That is a fact. It actually happened. I was there to witness it, first hand. There is a lot of reconstruction and rehabilitation going on there that most Americans never see. And it’s people like you, who are so skeptical, but have never worn a uniform and never actually been over there, that like to run off at the mouth just to hear yourself talk. I guess this is how you entertain yourself and your friends. You really think you know what you’re talking about because you read articles on the internet and you watch CNN. Why don’t you volunteer to go to Iraq and put your money where your mouth is. I promise you will learn something.

Running Blonde aka blondie

Gus, anyone serving in the military is a hero, you neanderthal!!! We have put our lives on the line just by being over there regardless of what our jobs are. As if you have a clue about what I was doing there anyway?!! In case you didn’t hear about it, the day after I left the Embassy, the Embassy got hit (a direct hit on the palace) only 50 yards from my office. So until you have put your life on the line for your country, you can’t say dick to me!

Gus, you called me a hero! Wow, we’re just making such nice-nice.

And FYI Gus, you were the one who used the word Hero to begin with…I do think that people who server overseas deserve credit though.