Stayed home sick yesterday — had the creeping grunge and stayed in bed all day. Should have taken the time to bring the weblog up-to-date, but simply didn’t feel like it.
Leaving for a mini-vacation with the family and attempting to pack today. Don’t feel all that well, but we’ve already purchased tickets, etc.
Perhaps I can blog some when I get home Sunday.
Saw where (apparently) US troops stormed a Sunni mosque. My prayers are with our soldiers and the Iraqi troops. Hope this doesn’t inflame the population even more, but I doubt it. The Islamic press will play this to the hilt — nevermind that a lot of mosques are being used as ammo dumps and staging grounds.
I agree that most of the Iraqis are glad we are there. I just worry about the domestic (for Iraq) and foreign Islamic presses making a hayday out of this.
I somethimes think we are winning the ground war on Islamic Fascism but loosing the PR campaign. Mainstream media is completely bypassing the fact that these mosques are being used as weapons depots, etc.
So instead of seeing ammo stacked up in a holy place, we see a stressed-out Marine taking out a fighter who might have been harboring a suicide bomb (not saying he was, just it fits the pattern).
(sigh)
The Iraqis are damn glad we’re there. Don’t believe with Dan Blather and his idiot contemporaries tell you.