I've been a little busy over a Friends of Mark Fuhrman Blog working on a $100M bond fraud in Spokane, WA. I've taken a break here in posting on the GWOT. I will post here irregularly but for the moment check out this piece at Gateway Pundit.

RBT

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Pigs Fly... AP Announces Iraq War Basically Over

The Wall Street Journal reported that all of the most important objectives of the surge have been accomplished.
Michael Yon already announced- "We won."

But, to see the AP admit to the great progress in Iraq is truly amazing.

Put down the coffee...
The AP is reporting that young soldiers want to get to Afghanistan to see some action since Iraq is so quiet and boring any more.
The AP:

Spc. Grover Gebhart has spent nine months at a small post on a Sunni-Shiite fault line in western Baghdad. But the 21-year-old soldier on his first tour in Iraq feels he's missing the real war — in Afghanistan, where his brother is fighting the Taliban.

With violence in Iraq at its lowest level in four years and the war in Afghanistan at a peak, the soldiers serving at patrol station Maverick say Gebhart's view is increasingly common, especially among younger soldiers looking to prove themselves in battle.

"I've heard it a lot since I got here," said 2nd Lt. Karl Kuechenmeister, a 2007 West Point graduate who arrived in Iraq about a week ago.

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