JP at Milblogging.com has agreed to sponsor my Essay Contest, and I’m truly grateful. I already have one entry sitting in the hold bin, and the contest will be running another 45 days. I hope that I get 100 entries or more but it will all depend on whether or not the military blogging community supports me in spreading the word. This contest is one more way to get insider’s viewpoints about what is happening in Iraq out to the public.
I watched a portion of one of the Doha Debates recently and I have to say, there are a lot of armchair quarterbacks out there who think they have something more to offer Iraq than the U.S. military does. My question for all of those who voted for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops is: why aren’t you here in Iraq if you care so much? In fact, how come almost no one in the audience was from Iraq? I only saw one audience member who was an actual Iraqi speak, and he said that troops should stay until the infrastructure in Iraq has been rebuilt. No one was really listening though. They were too busy blaming everyone for the mess and voting on an idiotic question that if it became an overnight reality, would only make things worse.
Homer Simpson should have been the moderator. Doh. Ha. Iraq needs the U.S. a while longer.