Monday, June 04, 2007

Dispatch From The Front

Courtesy of Michael Yon

I don't envy the job given to our fighting men. Being asked to do a dozen years of work in the snap of a liberal politicians finger is more than a daunting task. I am more than disgusted with the Murtha/Pelosi/Boxer/Clinton/et al band of traitorous scum who've placed our soldiers and Marines in greater harm by asking for the impossible.

Hit, Anbar Province, Iraq

"The city of Hit (pronounced “heat”) is a spot of green in the desert on the western bank of the Euphrates. The temperature is steadily rising here as the weeks melt into the mirage of summer; the haze shimmering at about 115°F now. The air was blowing hot and dry through the city Tuesday morning 29 May, when I accompanied LTC Doug Crissman for another day of meetings with local leaders in Hit and surrounding towns in Anbar Province. Crissman and the soldiers of Task Force 2-7 Infantry under his command have been welcomed in the area of Hit for about the last one hundred days. Prior to February, Hit was one of the hottest little battlegrounds of the war, with almost daily gun battles crackling through the air, mortars exploding on the bases, and bombs cratering the roads..."

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