Iraq @ MindSay

I met with my OIC (officer-in-charge) yesterday to talk about my impending deployment to Iraq and he's working on getting me a security clearance. If they grant it, I'm going for sure.

 

The idea of leaving in August for eight months truly sickens me. I would certainly feel better about leaving my wife behind for that long if I was being sent to do something good for the world: to build homes and schools for the poor, to help in a natural disaster area, to teach kids in a foreign country. Instead, I am being sent to a place where those who wear my country's uniform are killing innocent people and occupying their land.

 

If I go, I only hope to be able to use that experience for good, and maybe it'll help me deal with the guilt of having to participate in this immoral war.

I want to take this moment to ask you guys to pray for my friend, Jonathan Van Vogt. He's in the Marines and is stationed in Iraq. I know that some of you don't support the war in Iraq. But he's laying his life and self preservation on the line to defend the freedoms of this country. So can I ask that you pray for him? He's my good friend and I know his little sister would want me to pray for him.




~*Another day in the life of ~*Rebekah*~*316*~

So I was watching the most centered news source on television, and I saw this and I said, "well, fuck."  (It starts more towards the middle of the first video, but it's nice to know what a "message force multiplier" is.)





So you know, Rob Riggle was in the US Marine Corps. Reserve and has served in Afghanistan.

 

Well so much for the Sadar family dealing Muqtada al-Sadr privately as a family matter. Al-Sadr apparently is gaining confidence from rogue Iran that wishes to carve out a Middle Eastern hegemonic power base in the Middle East.

 

The Yahoo News source I just read implied al-Sadr is prepared to engage the U.S. military on a full scale basis in order to carve out his own Iraqi mini-state. Let’s see, what that State be called? Perhaps it would be called the Mahdi Republic or perhaps al-Sadr would just proclaim al-Sadr’s fiefdom a new part of the Shi’ite Islamofascist Republic of Iran.

 

Hello, its another play for oil power in the Middle East. It is somewhat like Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait to usurp oil for more money to rebuild Iraq after Iraq-Iran War ceased.

 

This could be another move on the chess board of war preparations between Iran and America: Patraeus was elevated to CentCom Commander so Iran elicits pressure from client terrorist al-Sadr.

 

JRH 4/24/08