Category Archives: Good News GWoT

Oh, Those Evil American Soldiers

I wonder if William Arkin will cover this? From Defend America (a webpage title that probably gives Arkin the heeby jeebies.) Units and Provincial Reconstruction Teams in eastern Afghanistan conducted humanitarian missions throughout the region. The Khost PRT worked with the Afghan Border Patrol to distribute hygiene kits, soccer balls and clothing to village elders […]

Afghan Defense Minister Thanks The Troops

Hmmm, I wonder why we didn't see this story anywhere within the MSM? Afghanistan’s defense minister thanked the United States today for its steadfast support for his country, specifically recognizing the U.S. troops who have served and sacrificed there and outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak told Pentagon reporters Afghanistan is indebted […]

Coalition Forces Kill Al Qaeda Assasination Team in Iraq

I keep hearing how Al Qaeda is not in Iraq. Interesting Iraqi police detained eight suspected insurgents from a government building in Fallujah, Iraq, today, and coalition forces killed an al Qaeda assassination team in Fallujah on Oct. 31, military officials in Iraq reported. …….. coalition forces killed an al Qaeda assassination team in Fallujah on […]

Some Good News From Afghanistan Makes The News

It is surprising, because the media doesn't want to extend any sort of good news for anything that the Bush administration has done or is doing. Maybe it is because NATO has taken over. Who knows? The story itself is an interesting mix of "everything is going bad" and "hey, look, Freedom!" Five years after […]

10th Mountain Div Kicks Terrorist Azz

With all the focus on Iraq, we sometimes forget all about Afghanistan. Give it up for for the boys in the 10th Mountain Division: Spc. Jose Pantoja shows off the danger of his mission along the border region of eastern Afghanistan:  a scar on his cheek from an enemy bullet. During one of the longest […]

The Pentagon’s 9/11 Chapel

MSM? Hello? Anyone? (from DefenseLink) At the exact site of the most painful event in the Pentagon’s history — the Sept. 11, 2001, attack that claimed 184 lives here — a couple brought together through the tragedy recently became the first to exchange wedding vows in the Pentagon Memorial Chapel. “It’s like the phoenix rising […]

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