Melanie Morgan

About the best thing that you can say about rain in the desert here in Kuwait is that it turns the powdery sand into packed mud.

It is shockingly cold as the water pours off the faces of young Marines and other service members, bone weary by their efforts to leave Iraq and Afghanistan and get home to their families by Christmas.

Some are trying to sleep in the breezy tents, no heat and not much to do for two weeks.

The lucky ones wait two days.

Hi Everybody!
 
It's the middle of the night here in Kuwait where we landed with our delegation from Move America Forward .

We are already running into some snags from the military end of our efforts to get into Ramadi, which used to be called the 'Triangle of Death' before our counter insurgency plan put into place by General David Petraeus started kicking in with phenomenal results.
 
Some of the aggregavation is big, some of it's small. No one met us at the airport to transport us to the military base where we are supposed to grab a chopper into Ramadi. Bureaucratic snafus. But I was prepared for that from my previous trip to Iraq in 2005.

Media giant NBC caught with it's knickers down! Michelle Malkin has this VERY interesting blogpost up on her site about how the lawyer who turned down FreedomsWatch.org SPECTACULAR Christmas television spot honoring our troops got is a LIBERAL DEMOCRAT DONOR AT NBC!

Shocked, shocked, I tell you.

Addiction is a terrible thing. And it has claimed a young woman with much promise as an entertainer, who was scheduled to appear at our A Song for their Service concert at the Lincoln Theatre on December 14th. She won't be attending, unfortunately, as she is otherwise detained.  

 Jessica Sierra needs some time and space to work out her problems --whether in a jail cell or a rehab unit.

Move America Forward wishes Jessica well.  I hope she gets the help she needs.