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unusualmusic_lj_archiveRockets Overhead, Sprinting For The Bunker....Again
by Soldier Boy
Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 03:40:30 AM PDT
It was a quiet winter. Attacks were low, and we'd only been rocketed three times since November. Even the EFP attacks had dropped. We hadn't had a serious casualty in weeks. We were counting down the days to the end of tour. Less than 50 now...can almost taste it.
Then it went straight back to last summer. Then worse. Muqtada al-Sadr and his Jaiysh al Mahdi militia finally lit the fuse on Basra. The JAM Special Groups used Basra and some ambiguity in al-Sadr's statement renewing the cease-fire to kick the war here in Baghdad back into full gear. Soldier Boy here again. Still alive and kicking, if rather more tiredly than last summer. If I can borrow a moment of your time from the candidate wars and the latest revelation of illegal doings in the White House, follow me over the fold for a report from the real war. You remember it, don't you? It was on page 7 last week.
read rest here
by Soldier Boy
Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 03:40:30 AM PDT
It was a quiet winter. Attacks were low, and we'd only been rocketed three times since November. Even the EFP attacks had dropped. We hadn't had a serious casualty in weeks. We were counting down the days to the end of tour. Less than 50 now...can almost taste it.
Then it went straight back to last summer. Then worse. Muqtada al-Sadr and his Jaiysh al Mahdi militia finally lit the fuse on Basra. The JAM Special Groups used Basra and some ambiguity in al-Sadr's statement renewing the cease-fire to kick the war here in Baghdad back into full gear. Soldier Boy here again. Still alive and kicking, if rather more tiredly than last summer. If I can borrow a moment of your time from the candidate wars and the latest revelation of illegal doings in the White House, follow me over the fold for a report from the real war. You remember it, don't you? It was on page 7 last week.
read rest here
