From the Public Opinion Strategies Poll released today.

As I see it, here are the key data points and they, in their own way, show the cunning of the Murtha slow bleed strategy.
 

My new Pinnacle body armor arrived.

On my last two trips to Iraq I wore a kevlar vest similar to what a working street cop would wear.

But the Bible says not to test the Lord.

Wearing a vest that will stop a pistol but probably not an AK round for trip number 3 would probably be testing it a bit much.

So, I opted for Pinnacle Armor's Dragon Skin system.
 

Little Green Footballs has been covering the Iranians being up in arms that U.S. manufactured civillian AK-47 ammo has been found in Iran.

For those of you who don't know, U.S. military ammo boxes look kinda like this.

Civillian manufactured AK-47 ammo boxes look like this.

Wow!  Look at the striking similarities between the Iranian ammo boxes and the Winchester ammo boxes!

And you can buy it online!

I'll leave the photoshop analysis to those better qualified.

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A lot of e-mail responses about the  Support The Troops.  Let Them Win! bumper sticker idea.

Well, it didn't take long for it to become a reality.

Here's a version one of my co-producers sent me.

Simple.  To the point. 

As one who has been in a lot of humvees and has been lens-to-detonator with IEDs, I have a mixed feeling about the armor debates.

(If you want to know what I mean by lens to detonator with an IED, buy the DVD)

News Item:  Pop musician John Cougar Mellencamp thinks the U.S. should hold negotiations with Al Qaida.

TRANSCRIPT:  Secret Negotiations Between the West and Mohammedan Jihadists

Representing the West--
John Cougar Mellencamp (JCM), Sean Penn (SP) and the Dixie Chicks (DC)

Representing the Mohammedan Jihadists--Sheik Dr. Ayman Muhammad Rabaie al-Zawahiri (AMZ)
 

"We have drunk blood [in the past], and we find no [blood] sweeter than that of the Byzantines [i.e. Christians]..."

The Emir of the Islamic State in Iraq Abu Omar Al-Baghdadi is waging a war that started thirteen centuries ago, went into cold dormancy, and emerged slowly in the mid-twentieth century.

Yes, what we are witnessing today has happened before, but this time the Mohammedans have the ability to travel farther and faster than by camel or horse.