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Chance Phelps: Taking Chance
military.rightpundits.com - 2/22/2009
Chance Phelps: Taking Chance
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Chance Phelps was 19-years-old when he was killed in combat operations just outside of Baghdad, Iraq on April 9, 2004. Lt. Col. Michael Strobl volunteered to escort PFC Phelps home to their common hometown, Dubois, Wyoming. An HBO movie has been made of Lt. Col. Strobl’s account of his ...
blackfive.net - 2/16/2009
[UPDATED] Chance Phelps Last Stand - According to Major General Kelly
— blackfive.net — Update: For Steve Cochran's listeners on WGN Radio, here is the link to the original story now on HBO - "Taking Chance". Update 2: From Doc Peabody, the US Navy Hospital Corpsman who attended to Chance Phelps: I am the... (more) [UPDATED] Chance Phelps Last Stand - According to Major ...

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Op-Ed Contributors: Iraq’s Year of Living Dangerously
nytimes.com - 2/26/2009
Op-Ed Contributors: Iraq’s Year of Living Dangerously
— nytimes.com — President Obama’s decision to withdraw the bulk of American troops by 2010 cannot be carried out rigidly. There are still real challenges ahead. > (more) Op-Ed Contributors: Iraq’s Year of Living Dangerously

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Iraq doesn't have to last forever
books.foreignpolicy.com - 2/23/2009
Iraq doesn't have to last forever
— books.foreignpolicy.com — by Marc Lynch The Gamble is perhaps the best of the rapidly proliferating crop of "Iraq surge" books. While it shares the generally admiring tone for the architects of the surge common in such books, it maintains the critical ... (more) Iraq doesn't have to last forever

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Blackfive: Chance Phelps Last Stand - According to Major General Kelly — Victory Caucus -- All Content
Corporal Seamus sends us this message from April 2004 about Lance Corporal Chance Phelps. It is the message that Major General John F. Kelly (then a Brigadier) sent to Lieutenant Colonel Michael Strobl after the General had read LtCol Strobl's...read ...