If Bill Kristol can tout Vets for Freedom, I can tout Paul Reickhoff of Iraq-Afghanistan Veteranas of America, which has been doing splendid work on behalf of our returning troops. In this post, he suggests a fund where donations can be made to honor the memory of Omar Mora and Yance T. Gray.

I’d missed this. Bill Kristol is obviously peeved that I used the word “trashed” to describe the piece run by the Weekly Standard and written by Vets For Freedom, a conservative pro-Iraq group. Too bad. This article was run as a response to the seven enlisted men who courageously took on the official line about [...]

Ryan Crocker was pressed by Senator Carl Levin in the Armed Services Committee hearing yesterday as to whether he had ever said to me, “The fall of the Maliki government, when it happens, might not be a bad thing” for Iraq. After twice evading the question, Crocker said that “he did not recall” making that [...]

According to Daily Kos, two of the seven soldiers who wrote the courageous New York Times op-ed–mostly ignored in the ghastly Petraeus-Crocker hearings–that questioned the reliability of the Iraqi Army have been killed in action. Their unit, the 82nd Airborne, was within weeks of heading home. Their testimony will be their legacy, an enduring tribute [...]