A snap shot from operation lightning.

"First of all I want to apologize for not posting for a long time. The electricity has been terrible these days and I also had some other stuff I needed to do. I always try to post frequently but sometimes it's just very difficult.

Operation lightning (I called it thunderbolt in a previous post so I apologize for that mistake) seems to be going better than what I expected in terms of reducing violence in Baghdad. I think everyone who's following the news must've seen that the attacks in Baghdad these days are getting less than before, and here on the ground we can see the same thing. Not just terrorist attacks that has been reduced but even regular crimes, as it seems that part of the operation is focusing on capturing regular criminals who are in addition to their usual criminal activities do form, in my mind, the right hand for the Ba'athists...

... the type of freedom that even America cannot grant us."
Free Iraqi

You know for all the Military and Economic "Power" at our disposal, the power to grant freedom to anyone but ourselves still eludes us. The truth is that in this respect your on your own. Only Iraqis have this power, only Iraqis can "grant" Iraqis any measure of freedom.

See here for and example