DoD Identifies Marine Casualty

No. 1192-05 Nov 16, 2005
DoD Identifies Marine Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Lance Cpl. Nickolas D. Schiavoni, 26, of Haverhill, Mass. , died Nov. 15 from a suicide, vehicle-borne, improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations against enemy forces near Al Karmah, Iraq. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N. C.
Media with questions about this Marine can call the 2nd Marine Division Public Affairs Office at (910) 451-nd Marine Division Public Affairs Office at (910) 451-9033.

DoD Identifies Army Casualty

No. 1193-05 Nov 16, 2005
DoD Identifies Army Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Sgt. 1st Class James S. Ochsner, 36, of Waukegan, Ill. , died in Orgun-E, Afghanistan, on Nov. 15, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV during a supply distribution mission. Ochsner was assigned to the Army's 2nd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group, Fort Bragg, N. C.
For further information related to this release, contact Army Public Affairs at (703) 692-2000.

DoD Identifies Marine Casualties

No. 1189-05 Nov 16, 2005
DoD Identifies Marine Casualties

The Department of Defense announced today the death of three Marines who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Killed were:
Cpl. John M. Longoria, 21, of Nixon, Texas, died Nov. 14 of wounds sustained from small arms fire while conducting combat operations against enemy forces during Operation Steel Curtain in New Ubaydi, Iraq.
Maj. Ramon J. Mendoza Jr. , 37, of Columbus, Ohio, and
Lance Cpl. Christopher M. McCrackin, 20, of Liverpool, Texas, both died Nov. 14 from an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations against enemy forces during Operation Steel Curtain in New Ubaydi, Iraq.
All three Marines were assigned to Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif. During Operation Iraqi Freedom, their unit was attached to 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward).
Media with questions about these Marines can call the Camp Pendleton Public Affairs Office at (760) 725-5044.

Photo for the Day- November 16, 2005

First Lt. Jason Young, Sgt. Jeremy Flagg and Mark, a translator, of the 155th Brigade Combat Team, speak to an Iraqi Sheik in his house about his knowledge of the whereabouts of any terrorists reportedly seen in the area, in Kalsu, Iraq, on Nov. 12, 2005. (Courtesy of MNF-I)
USMC photo by.........
Lance Corporal Michael J. O’Brien

Democrats: Dishonest on Iraq

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The Tool of Choice for Bush Bashing

Most Pollsters in this new era of fast news... the Internet and Bloggers... will give you a straight up admittance that the Polls they conduct today for the MSM have a sampling error of 3% to 5%. What they will not give you is this... (That is unless you go and look into the bowels of their report findings...) That in addition to the sampling error in most Polls of 3% to5%... the question wording and the practical difficulties in conducting surveys alone can introduce more ERROR or BIAS into the findings of public poll opinion.

Before the 2000 elections we saw a major flaw in Polls... If I’m correct, many in this field of business had to go before a Committee to explain and then fix the problem.... Then we have what’s going on in the MSM today... They haven’t fixed anything... The results are off the charts WRONG by their own definition and prove NOTHING!!! Yet they get away with it...
WHY????????????????

It’s BIG NEWS!!! It fits into most of the MSM political agenda-- to BASH BUSH... to bring him down... to politically take him out and I personally feel at times that they truly wish to undermine the War on Terror. All the above has gotten way out of hand and it is an extremely dangerous game the MSM has undertaken.

So... to my fellow Bloggers out there I ask-- no I beg you to do this for me, for yourself and for this great country of ours... Research what I have brought forth above and if I am correct in your finding... please write up your findings and pass it on. Something has got to change and soon and I’m afraid it’s going to take those of us in the Blogisphere to fix it....
Thanks for your time,
AubreyJ.........
(11/15/05)

A few takes on topic below:
>> THE AMERICAN DAILY ‘May the polls be with you’
By Miguel Guanipa (11/16/05)
>> MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ‘Tilting the Terror Polls’
By L. Brent Bozell III (11/15/05)

TROOP MORALE

“I can understand that Liberals don’t like to be told their arguments make the troops’ job harder. Who would want to hear they’re undermining the war effort?”
Jonah Goldberg
Good read today at Argghhh!!!
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AubreyJ.........

al-Zarqawi misread his audience

Sajida Rishawi was meant to become a poster girl for suicide terror. But she is inspiring revulsion, not veneration, in Jordan and beyond...
Read more on topic at TIME ONLINE ‘Arabs Recoil from Suicide Sister’
AubreyJ says: Al Qaeda in Iraq and al-Zarqawi should take lesson learned from the Al Capone era. He did great until he went and pulled off the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Public opinion turned on him and that was pretty much the end of the Mob Era... and of Al Capone. We can only pray that Zarqawi’s work of terror in Jordan will be the beginning of the end for him and his Al Qaeda followers worldwide...