Thanks to all you vets

[boomman]

Although we disagree on many things, I'm confident we all agree in wishing our veterans the very best on this special day! I want to especially send out my thoughts and prayers to my fellow vets: the men and women in harms way in Iraq and Afghanistan. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your families!

Below is an incredible commercial produced by Budweiser welcoming some vets home. I can assure you there won't be a dry in the house when you watch it, and encourage all of you that haven't seen it to do so..........

Boomer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osTrMe76kes

[HUSKER55]

i AGREE AND THANKS FOR THE LINK:ThmbUp:

[BillW]

hear, hear!

[michiken]

At least our vets are ONE thing that has not been outsourced or sold off to the lowest bidder!

[LottaKash]

At least our vets are ONE thing that has not been outsourced or sold off to the lowest bidder!

How much ?.....I'm an old vet, maybe I could be outsourced, if the price was right......:jump: .... My wife might help make that happen.....:rolleyes:

best,

[sammy the sage]

HERE, here...hooray for ALL vets...

the ONE reason we're all here!

[Donnie]

Indeed. Thank you to all the fine men and women who have taken it upon themselves to give their time, energy, and resources to take a stand of support for the best country on Earth. And it is because of them, past, present and future, that we have the Freedom that we do. God bless you.

[Rookies]

Yes, indeed. I posted earlier about this amid the fury of Off Topic.

This is a GREAT video for the vets in Canada.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYlrrAWCTRg

I salute their effort for many reasons, my Navy father long deceased and my Father in Law who, perhaps appropriately dies 6 years ago on this date. He served in the U.S. Army during the 2nd. World War and followed up with 30 years in the Pa. National Guard.

R.I.P. :ThmbUp:

[mannyberrios]

Yes sir!

[Tom]

God bless them all.:ThmbUp:

[boxcar]

Indeed. Thank you to all the fine men and women who have taken it upon themselves to give their time, energy, and resources to take a stand of support for the best country on Earth. And it is because of them, past, present and future, that we have the Freedom that we do. God bless you.

Well stated. And we owe a huge debt of gratitude to those brave men and women for the current job they're doing in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A friend just sent me this article from IBD about the absolutely job our troops are doing in Iraq -- something we're not hearing or reading about in the mainstream media. It's troops like these who make me proud to be an American. Bush made the right decision by ordering the surge. He chose the right general for the task. And as we'd expect, our troops were more than up to the task.

May the good Lord above bless them all and bring them home safely.

Boxcar

London Times Article
Winning Isn't News

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Iraq: What would happen if the U.S. won a war but the media didn't
tell the American public? Apparently, we have to rely on a British
newspaper for the news that we've defeated the last remnants of
al-Qaida in Iraq ..

London's Sunday Times called it "the culmination of one of the most
spectacular victories of the war on terror." A terrorist force that
once numbered more than 12,000, with strongholds in the west and
central regions of Iraq, has over two years been reduced to a mere
1,200 fighters, backed against the wall in the northern city of Mosul.

The destruction of al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI) is one of the most unlikely
and unforeseen events in the l ong history of American warfare. We can
thank President Bush's surge strategy, in which he bucked both
Republican and Democratic leaders in Washington by increasing our
forces there instead of surrendering.

We can also thank the leadership of the new general he placed in
charge there, David Petraeus, who may be the foremost expert in the
world on counter-insurgency warfare. And we can thank those serving in
our military in Iraq who engaged local Iraqi tribal leaders and
convinced them America was their friend and AQI their enemy.

Al-Qaida's loss of the hearts and minds of ordinary Iraqis began in
Anbar Province, which had been written off as a basket case, and
spread out from there.

Now, in Operation Lion's Roar the Iraqi army and the U.S. 3rd Armored
Cavalry Regiment is destroying the fraction of terrorists who are
left. More than 1,000 AQI operatives have already been apprehended.

Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin, traveling with Iraqi forces in
Mosul, found little AQI presence even in bullet-ridden residential
areas that were once insurgency strongholds, and reported that the
terrorists have lost control of its Mosul urban base, with what is
left of the organization having fled south into the countryside.

Meanwhile, the State Department reports that Iraqi Prime Minister
Nouri al-Maliki's government has achieved "satisfactory" progress on
15 of the 18 political benchmarks "a big change for the better from a
year ago."

Things are going so well that Maliki has even for the first time
floated the idea of a timetable for withdrawal of American forces. He
did so while visiting the United Arab Emirates, which over the weekend
announced that it was forgiving almost $7 billion of debt owed by
Baghdad, an impressive vote of confidence from a fellow Arab state in
the future of a free Iraq.

But where are the headlines and the front-page stories about all this
good news? As the Media Research Center pointed out last week, "the
CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News and CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 were
silent Tuesday night about the benchmarks "that signaled political
progress."

The war in Iraq has been turned around180 degrees both militarily and
politically because the president stuck to his guns. Yet apart from
IBD, Fox News Channel and parts of the foreign press, the media don't
seem to consider this historic event a big story.

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