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Does anger make you a better decision maker? Maybe. It works for me, literally.
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Cassie won't be happy to know she's right about blabberers ruining 'The Stew', again. I fear for the fool who ever cops to being a leaker in her presence. Really.
Oh, and it's also a view into what was going on in Somalia not to long ago. 6 pages, but worth the read.
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John Hawkins has up his latest "temperature check" of what Cassandra terms the "Reichosphere." Yes, Castle Argghhh! contributes to this. I find these two questions and their answers somewhat bemusing:
4) Do you think that the Bush administration or CIA knew that 9/11 was coming and deliberately did nothing to stop it or alternately, helped execute the 9/11 attacks?
Yes: 1 -- 2%
No: 50 -- 98%
5) Do you believe that President Bush intends to merge the United States with Canada and Mexico in order to form a North American Union?
Yes: 3 -- 6%
No: 46 -- 94%
I simply don't live in a world where question #4 is true, as baldly stated. If you want to make an argument that the administration knew, in a pre-Pearl Harbor sort of fashion, I can listen to that argument. But not as a deliberate, bald statement.
As for #5, I'm thinking that semantics matters. I'm with the "No" crowd. Jerome Corsi would sit with the "Yes" group.
Speaking of Cassandra, she really does like guys. Responsible guys, mind you. I do envy Cassandra her stable of commenters. You guys are great - I just wish I could poach some of hers. Of course, then I'd have to write as well as she does, so, never mind.
Speaking of bloggers - many of you here will recognize this blogger. If you don't, lemme help you out.
News from MNF-I:
Iraqi troops lead security searches in Baghdad neighborhood
'Golden Dragons' foil truck bomb attack
Iraqi Army partners with 'Stallions' in security sweep
Marines, IPs work together after IED explosion rocks Rawah
Moving on - remember those Austian Sniper Rifles reported by the Daily Telegraph? Bob Owens at Confederate Yankee has kept after that fox, and finds the hounds can't catch the scent. Because the story appears to be wrong. We mentioned it in the H&I Fires on 13 February. I went back and updated the entry for that day. Google is both good and bad in that regard.
On the Immigration Front, Bloodspite has part 2 of his battle against the bill up. -the Armorer
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Taco from the Sandgram has snuck some big news in this post. A baby boy on the way and a promotion. Go on over and say congratulations!********Maggie
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Heh. I was just gonna post that. Never Mind. -the Armorer
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*A term of art from the artillery. Harassment and Interdiction Fires.
Back in the day, when you could just kill people and break things without a note from a lawyer, they were pre-planned, but to the enemy, random, fires at known gathering points, road junctions, Main Supply Routes, assembly areas, etc - to keep the bad guy nervous that the world around him might start exploding at any minute.
*Not really relevant to today's operating environment, right? But, it *is*
The UAVs (oops, can't call 'em UAVs anymore - they're now Unmanned Aerial Systems... some Colonel got his Legion of Merit for that change...), er, um UAS's we fly over Afghanistan and Pakistan looking for targets of opportunity are a form of H&I fires, if you really want to parse it finely. We just have better sensors and fire control now.
I call the post that because it's random things posted by me and people I've given posting privileges to. It's also an open trackback, so if someone has a post they're proud of, but it really isn't either Castle kind of stuff, or topical to a particular post, I've basically given blanket permission to use that post for that purpose. Another term of art that might be appropriate is "Free Fire Zone".
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