Profiles in Courage: US Army PFC Ross McGinnis, an American hero
Blackfive has the details of the last actions this American hero took in order to save the lives of his fellow soldiers and platoon sergeant.
Profiles in courage: Navy medic Chris Walsh – RIP
This article about a Navy medic and a Marine platoon coming to the rescue of a sick Iraqi baby is about a week old, but I just rec’d it in email this evening by a reader – the story itself is timeless.
Bush’s reaction to the ISG’s report concerns Dems
Good news: Bush isn’t too keen on some of the recommendations of the ISG’s report, released earlier this week, and it’s worrisome to Democrats:
Iraq Study Group findings
There’s been a lot of talk in the blogosphere about the findings of the Iraq Study Group, which were released in full today.
The Rummy memo
Since I’m behind on blogging, in the interest of time I’m going to link to Allah’s link-rich post on the topic of the leaked Rummy memo, which supposedly was submitted to the administration two days before he announced he was going to resign. In a nutshell, Rummy said in the memo that we needed a new strategy in Iraq, because things weren’t going well.
Iraq Survey Group to recommend “gradual pullback” of troops out of Iraq
Allah’s got the lowdown on the NYT report – obviously leaked – which discusses recommendations the ISG plans to announce officially in a week.