True dat

While it's true that I know very little about General David Petraeus, I do have some ideas of what is really going on in Iraq. You see my wife works for a very large Government defense contractor that send folks to Iraq to deploy some of the "latest and greatest" gadgets and doodads for the military to test and use. A lot of this stuff is for what is called "situational awareness," or so our guys will ALL know what each other is doing and we don't get caught in cross-fire, friendly-fire incidents and ALWAYS know where the bad guys are.

Anyways most of these guys are software engineers and hardware/software specialists, some retired military and some not, they never get to go beyond the "Green Zone" and even then they tell stories of isolation and the feeling you are cut-off from the rest of the world and the city your are in (in this case Baghdad).

Therefor when I say I think General Petraeus fed the United States Congress a line of BS in his report it is just "my opinion" however backed with some reasonable information.

A lot has happened in the past few weeks, I have had some computer issues (lost all my bookmarks, some links, email and several programs) so I haven't been updating my blog. On another sad note, there is only one person that I know of that has actually read my blog on a consistent basis. I don't know the guy personally, he does seem to be very intelligent and in a lot of things agrees with me. I enjoy reading his blog and occasionally will comment on his posts.

What's my point, well as my wife called me to dinner in the middle of this post, I don't really know.

My train of thought has completely derailed.