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General (R) McCaffrey's latest AAR from in-theater.
I've stripped a lot of the contact data out.  I'll put up the .pdf later for those who want to see who Gen(r) McCaffrey visited during his latest swing through the region.  Bottom line - things are looking up.  McCaffrey is not one to paint a rosy picture to soften a blow - as ...
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Gen. McCaffrey's Latest AAR from Iraq
Ace of Spades HQ — Gen. McCaffrey's Latest AAR from Iraq Is Obama really prepared to deliberately lose a war almost entirely won? We'll see. Fortunately, he has the nuance of thought allowing him to repudiate ...

Washington Post Clueless On Iraq Timeline
Pirate's Cove — ... enemy knows, because the little jihadi’s got there heads handed too them, making it difficult for Allah to pass out all those virgins. Anyone with a brain knew that at some point it would be announced that we were winding up our affairs in Iraq. The difference was that Bush wanted to wait till the right time, and President-Elect Barry and other Defeatocrats wanted to do it so we completely lost. For those so inclined, I would highly recommend reading this post from Argghhh! regarding the bottom line in Iraq. PS: the first person to go ...

Washington Post Clueless On Iraq Timeline
Stop The ACLU — ... matter if the enemy knows, because the little jihadi’s got there heads handed too them, making it difficult for Allah to pass out all those virgins. Anyone with a brain knew that at some point it would be announced that we were winding up our affairs in Iraq. The difference was that Bush wanted to wait till the right time, and President-Elect Barry and other Defeatocrats wanted to do it so we completely lost. For those so inclined, I would highly recommend reading this post from Argghhh! regarding the bottom line in Iraq. PS: the first person to go down the road of “how do ...

(Ret.) Gen. McCaffrey’s Latest AAR From The Iraq Theater Of Operation: Let’s Not Lose The Win
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — ... Here, Barry … The Home Of The Two Jonah’s Military Guys help you out a little by pointing to Sections 5 & 8 as ‘most important’ to read and understand … no nuance required. ...

Get ye to the Castle
Mudville Gazette — The Armorer introduces the latest Gen(r) McCaffrey AAR thusly: For those of you on the cruise who were a little taken aback by Bing West's assertion during one of the panels that "The war in Iraq is over, we won!" (as I was, I admit), well, Bing may have read this document already.Which he might have - but Bing has got some sand in his boots, too. While at the castle, check out this Q & A with Admiral Mullen on the Iraq SOFA, Gitmo, and the role of the CJCS, too. I'm not sure how much of all that the ...

“The War is Over and We Won”
The Wide Awake Cafe — The Iraq War is over and we have won. Really. America has won. Zombie Time Declares it. We have won the war even though there is nothing to be found about this fabulous news at MSNBC or ABC News or CBS News or CNN or even Fox News. Here is the Google news results page if you enter “the war in Iraq is won.” Not much, huh? One has to scroll down eight links to a Blogger News Network link which reads Psst…the war is won ...

Victory In Iraq Day
Confederate Yankee — ... : Despite a loathing by the media to declare it such, the Iraq wars are effectively over, and we won . The first war was the second invasion of Iraq where U.S. conventional forces deposed Saddam Hussein, killed his heirs, and defeated his military in 2003. We won that one quickly. The second war, an asymmetrical conflict with al Qaeda in Iraq and other Sunni insurgent groups, emerged from the rubble of the conventional conflict as a media war, where seemingly random IED strikes and vicious terrorist bombings that killed dozens at a time sought to create chaos and defeat the ...

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