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</html><description>This morning I fired off a quick email to my friend fester about insurgent attacks on roads and bridges, which he has expanded into an important post. The key point is that cutting our transportation options makes it much harder for US forces to move around Iraq freely while expanding the ability of insurgents to &hellip;</description><thumbnail_url>https://balloon-juice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/tunchiswatching.jpg</thumbnail_url><thumbnail_width>2048</thumbnail_width><thumbnail_height>1536</thumbnail_height></oembed>
