I know guys who earned purple hearts.  I've been on the missions where they earned them.

This guy is getting what he deserves for faking it.

There has been a modest up-tick in support for winning the war in Iraq.   

The New York Times in a mid-July poll discovered up-tick and didn't believe it.  So, they ran the poll again.  Same result.  Support for the war was up.

The reason for the uptick?  An increase in optomistic Gross Ratings Points on the same topic.

With a sandstorm bearing down us, I asked this member of the Shihabi Neighborhood Watch a simple question.

I got a very simple answer.

A preview movie clip as I edit along. 

"Mu, mu, mu Jihad," which roughly translated means "Not, not, not Jihad."

JD is scheduled to be on the O'Reilly Factor tonight on Fox News Channel.

JD was embedded with Scott Thomas Beauchamp's unit this past May when they captured a Jaish al-Mahdi cell leader and rescued a Sunni man from being assassinated.

UPDATE:

You can watch the segment here.

Army Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp is a walking talking cliche--the intelligent, educated, artistic grunt who is or wants to be a writer.

In the movie the Big Red One, Private Zab, an author, is thrust into WWII with the Army's 1st Infantry Division.

Beauchamp is Zab, which is actually to say Samuel Fuller--all the way down to the same infantry division.

Thanks to modern technology and possibly a well positioned female acquintance, Beauchamp was able to live out his meta theme without waiting until his deployment or the war was over.