My best friend in the whole wide world (not to mention a hell of a writer) wants to point everybody over to Military.com, a website which ain’t exactly a bastion of liberal anti-war activists.
And yet these are some of the top headlines over there:
Marines Show Frustration In Iraq, which begins with this:
The sound of the Black Hawk medical helicopter is an ominous sign for the Marines patrolling this forgotten western corner of Iraq that borders Syria. It means that one of them is seriously wounded or killed at the hands of their elusive enemy…
“We are losing guys left and right,” says Cpl. Cody King, 20, of Phoenix, Ariz. “All we are doing around here is getting blown up,” he says, not hiding his anger.
Reservists Doubt Their Combat Readiness:
… almost half of Army Reserve soldiers believed their units were not “well prepared” for their wartime missions. Army Reservists who had served in Iraq graded their units’ readiness for war even lower…
Check out the lead sentence of Troops Experience Difficulties In Voting:
U.S. service members based in Iraq and across the globe can’t be confident that their votes will be counted in this year’s presidential election, analysts and military advocates said this week.
And further down, in the featured articles, we even learn that all the high-tech advantages field commanders supposedly had during Shock’n’Awe