Melanie Morgan

Fred Thompson has FINALLY made the most compelling arguement for his candidacy to date. In a 17 minute talk, he asked voters in Iowa to pick him as the GOP presidential nominee in their Hawkeye Cauci.

But he was really talking past Iowa to the rest of the country. 

Typically, he used the Internet to do it.

Grab a seat on the Fred Express --it's rolling down the track.

Matt Sanchez, who is one of the premier embedded milbloggers from Iraq and Afghanistan, has dedicated the last seven months of his life to bringing us the truth from the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I met him in Kuwait, and now he has filed his own report on what he saw, said and did there.

Debbie Lee is a leggy blonde from Arizona, almost six feet tall, with piercing blue eyes, and an inner glow that could power the San Onofre nuclear power plant here in California. She's kind, gentle, and never has a bad word to say about anybody. She clings to her Christian faith, which helped raise her out of a family that was often cruel. She is a widow of 13 years, with two surviving children who love her very much.

Debbie Lee is a Gold Star Mom. It's exclusive club to which she never aspired. 

It means that she lost a child in the war. The war against nascent Radical Islam. A war that we are still fighting, and will be fighting for decades to come. 

Debbie has told and re-told  the story of how her hero, Marc, was killed in a hail of gunfire fighting radical Islamic terrorists.

She has shared the intimate details of his life and death in Ramdai, the first Navy Seal who was killed in the fighting in Iraq, and how he stood up not once but three times to save his fellow soldiers from a murderous attack by Al Quada.

She has done this for over a year for Move America Forward and our country, with no compensation, other than the gratitude of our soldiers and fellow Americans.

Deb filed this report from our MAF delegation (of which I was a part until last week) in Baghdad, Iraq.

It is a moving account of Christmas day with our troops. Grab a hanky.

It's Christmas morning 2007 and I arise, but not to the typical Christmas traditions. There is no Christmas Tree with sparkling lights to be plugged in, no presents to be opened, no stockings are hung, no Stereo to play the Christmas CD's. There will be no Christmas table set with fine china and family gathered around smelling the aroma of a roasting turkey or pumpkin pies. No children or grandchildren with their excitement and laughter filling the air. No snow falling on the ground. That doesn't mean that I won't be celebrating and remembering the birth of my savior who was born to be a sacrifice and give the best gift of all, an eternity with Him for those who believe. I'm closer than I have ever been to the physical place where Jesus Christ was born. This Christmas I am in Baghdad, Iraq sharing Christ's love and hope with the troops. 
 

From WorldNetDaily.com

A lot of trees have died for newsprint about the success of the "surge" of troops into the chaos of the old Iraq, but reports are thin on details (except for the fine work of milbloggers who are embedded with the troops).

First, the media pronounced the war lost. Then in July, when it became apparent that the change of strategy by Gen. David Petraeus is achieving measurable victories, the mainstream media became strangely mute.

Now the storyline is that the armchair generals, talking-head pundits on cable-clown shows, editorial writers and opinion makers knew all along that Iraq would stabilize, but it was because of the efforts of "others" and not U.S. military forces. Exactly who the "others" are depends on which left-wing anti-American chin-wagger needed some face time on TV.

I have just returned from an American base in Kuwait (unidentified for security purposes) where I spent a good chunk of time talking to soldiers and officers who were transiting home for the Christmas holidays, and others who are returning in theater. During perpendicular rainstorms that turned desert talcum-powder sand into packed mud, I interviewed hundreds of Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force officers, as well as coalition forces from Australia, the United Kingdom, South Korea and Japan. A highly pixilated image of what is happening is now visible to even the naked eye.