Matt Sanchez, live from FOB Falcon: Despite the media coverage back home, most of the fifty or so soldiers I spoke with had never heard of Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp, and shrugged their shoulders when I mentioned the “Baghdad Diarist”. Not following the news too closely is normal on bases throughout Iraq and FOB Falcon …
Archives for August 2007
The Bad Bridges
Sullivan links to an archived graphic of bad bridges in the US, and a couple things stand out: 1.) If you look at the blown up map, Brooke, Hancock and Ohio County in WV are all marked red (as is Mon. County), meaning they have problem bridges. That region, the northern panhandle of WV, has …
Your Daily Beauchamp
Sully: Barnett calls the TNR statement “maddening”. If you’re wedded to the belief that the stories were fabricated, then it must be. It’s no fun to have accused a writer and his editors of wilfull malfeasance only to discover you have no real basis for it, except your own insecurities and hatreds. If, on the …
The House, Back to Normal
The Democrats appeared to be up to no good in the House last night: In a massive flare-up of partisan tensions, Republicans walked out on a House vote late Thursday night to protest what they believed to be Democratic maneuvers to reverse an unfavorable outcome for them. The flap represents a complete breakdown in parliamentary …
The Healthcare Bill
The House passes a healthcare bill: Over angry Republican objections, the House on Wednesday passed a sweeping expansion of the Children’s Health Insurance Program, financed with increases in tobacco taxes and cuts in subsidies to private Medicare insurance plans for older Americans. The bill embodies the Democrats’ vision for health care, taking a step toward …
The SecDef’s Assessment
Pretty sobering: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today that he was discouraged by the departure of the major Sunni Arab bloc from Iraq’s coalition government, and noted that the Bush administration may have misjudged the difficulty of achieving reconciliation among Iraq’s sectarian factions. In one of his bluntest assessments of the progress of the …
Regarding The Bridge
A terrible accident, it appears, and I hope very few people end up losing their lives. I am not generally one to go on and on gushing about the children, but the fact that none of the children on the bus were killed is, in and of itself, miraculous. At any rate, I remember reading …