Friday wrap-up

Tomorrow (Saturday) is a school day for me, so will be fairly quiet here. Classes alternate between all day Friday one week, and all day Saturday the next week.

Monday I'll have up another dispatch from the front.

My correspondent in Iraq sent me a link to this story. It's a Reuters story, so that should be reason enough to at least turn your radar on.

The story is headlined "Iraqi insurgents hit back hard despite US attacks". Here's a snippet from the article:

The U.S. military hails its latest offensive in Iraq as a great success, but militants have captured the headlines with a bloody wave of attacks in Baghdad and a blunt declaration of war on majority Shi'ite Muslims.

My correspondent points out, though:

Don't know if it's intentional but... The choice of headline phrase could imply some type of insurgent response somehow proportional or in equal measure under the rules of land warfare...

HOWEVER they are committing mass murder against noncombatant civilian innocent nonbelligerents. I don't know how they fail to mention this. It should be standard bold face in every headline. In some insane way the aljazeera mentality has taken over as if they are waging some righteous cause. Ok, if they want to fight a perceived "occupation" against military targets I will give them that. But murder of defenseless civilians is hardly courage or bravery. Those jihadi fighters are less than men.

On Tuesday, I'll have some more thoughts on how we don't always hear the full story coming out of Iraq.

Have a good weekend, one and all...