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    HRW Statement on soldier executions

    This just came into my email.
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    A couple of years back one of the network news...

    A couple of years back one of the network news shows (my recollection is that it was Nightline) was going to spend a substantial amount of airtime simply reading the names of the fallen. They were...
  3. I just had forwarded to me this link, where a...

    I just had forwarded to me this link, where a minaret is destroyed. You can hear the troops in the background laughing about it.

    http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/2007/05/liveleak.html
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  4. This one I've read -- it's quite good. Buzzell...

    This one I've read -- it's quite good. Buzzell has a pretty cyncical take on the Army, and on life in general. I gave it to my nephew when he was considering enlisting in the Marine Corps (he...
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    True, but

    True, but at the same, a lot of smart companies (Microsoft is a good example) are encouraging their employees to blog and do it openly. In the case of MS its made a 180 turnaround in attitudes of...
  6. Makes sense. I did some IT consulting for State...

    Makes sense. I did some IT consulting for State Department about ten years ago, and it seemed like all of the technology was ancient. Bandwidth was a particular problem, and we weren't dealing with...
  7. I think you are on to something important here. ...

    I think you are on to something important here. One of the few times the mainstream media has given wide coverage to actual bodies in this war was when the four private contractors's bodies were...
  8. More restrictions: Military puts Myspace, Youtube, other sites off-limits

    Just a couple of weeks ago we had the discussion about restricting blogging within the Army. This article just came to my attention, ironically sent to me on myspace by a friend in Iraq.

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    Credibility in the political battle

    Nice idea. I spend a lot of time reading milbloggers on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with a lot of Iraqi bloggers. It's astonishing sometimes how different the picture is between the...
  10. Putting it on the line

    This is a big deal. There are several generals out there who've been very critical of current leadership. But they all waited to get their retirement papers in hand before they went public. ...
  11. Curious

    I'll be very curious to hear the opinions of the professionals on this board to this article. It's fascinating stuff, and it accurately reflects what I've been told repeatedly by the junior and...
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    That was the one

    I couldn't recall the title of the report, thanks for posting the excerpts!
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    Hrw

    HRW did an interesting report following up on the initial phase of Iraq a few years back, focusing on civilian casualties in air-to-ground bombing.

    Their conclusion was interesting. They could...
  14. Lack of attachment to reality

    Speaking as someone who was heavily involved with questioning the original invasion of Iraq in 2003 -- I spoke at the big antiwar protest in October 02 -- I can say what you're seeing with the people...
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    Enlightening

    Thanks, enlightening response.
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    Less useful in Iraq

    Early last year, I tried to float to an op-ed suggesting that USAID redirect a substantial portion (several billions) of reconstruction funding for Iraq into microloans. While the op-ed didn't go...
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