straight from the horses mouth and not some leftist media saying we're loosing or should cut tail and run! Tahnkyou to all the brave people fighting for freedom!  Hey Paul:

Thanks for you vote of condidence. I have been printing your messages and hanging them up for the guys here just to show them that there are people out there that support them. Anyway, I am traveling south now out of Iraq into Kuwait. It will be nice to have a few days off and some rest, because they have been killing us over the past few weeks. The good news is that things are changing here. We are trying to fight a mobile force so it is like trying to catch water, but the men and women fighting and supporting this war are doing a good job. You can really see the change. I am sure that you have heard about it on the news even if you did not know what you were hearing. Anbar province used to be a hell whole, now it is one of the safest places in Iraq. Bagdad is been where the push has been and the US Army has successfully run most of the terrorist out of Bagdad now. They are all going north east into as CNN says "the volatile diyala province" and some have been going south between bagdad and scania. Recently though there has been a big push by the 82nd Airborne to secure the area between bagdad and Scania and things have gotten a lot safer there. Also most of the fighters down in this area is Shiite fighters that support Iran and Muqtada Al Sadr, they are just active because America is there, but pose no long term threat to the security of Iraq. So most of the real bad guys are up in Diyala around the US bases of Taji and Anaconda, which is just one province and there is a few straglers in Bagdad still.

The US is going to win this war, so prepare yourself and all your liberal buddies for that. The media has not really done a good job of even preparing the American people for that either, to some it may come as a shock. You will not see a surrender, but you will see a day when we start coming home and the numbers get smaller and smaller. Matter of fact I think at least that might have already begun, although it is not officially been, but we are pulling a lot of equipment out of Iraq right now. That could reverse next month, but at least now we are shipping south more equipment than we are pulling north. Plus most of the equipment we are hauling north is loading equipment.

We will see though, my guess is that this move will start happening about 3 months before you start seeing units go home and the numbers start to fall.

Hope you like that news.

John

bagdad??

Wow, sounds like mission accomplished soon. I hope they bring the troops back soon. But they will have to find another saddam, because it will take a ruthless leader to hold that country together. Or it may become another fundamental islamic country like Iran or split into 3 seperate states.

You will no doubt get zero sympathy (and zero intelligence) from all the American hating farang simpletons that dominate this site. At days end though, it doesn't matter what they think.

"The U.S. is going to win this war......"

Damn right. In spite of the idiots who pray (oops...I forgot; there is no higher power for them) for America and its allies to lose. God speed to the greatest people there are. The American Military and its wonderful soldiers.

Iran Next ....Pakistan Later ....America has good options

for once sushi has it right iran here we come yippie ki yeah motherf..... lol

Re: post above.

Make that less than zero intelligence.

Pass me another bottle of AB negaitve . . . will ya??

One bad incident is all the leftist can always run to claim to not the hundred and thousands of incidents by extremeists like the murder and sslaughter of a child and then FED to his parents!!!! O rhte slaughter of an almost small village. No they don't like to mention that!

My marine friends are in Iraq now and I didnt hear anything from them for 6 months

Iran Next will be more tougher than Iraq ...they have more weapons than Iraq for sure , Iraq was so much sucked up after 12 years of sanctions (1991-2003) they hardly had any weapons to use ..except maybe Gorge Bushs famous WMD ..which is still somewhere hidden in Iraq ..if Bush is to be believed .???? LOL

Dont want to come across as being negative , but what war are the Americans winning ?

If its the "War on Terror", then sorry to spoil the party but there is terror all over the world

But if it means all the American soldiers will leave , then congratulations on winning the war .

geeeezzzz ..... yeah right u r winning the war !!!!

get a ******* grip ..... u will come home with ur tails between ur legs same as in vietnam .... remember that war !!!

I salute the individuals of the US military, they are doing their jobs, following orders. It the US foriegn policy makers using the military as cannon fodder to push their own agenda.