Posterizing the Democrats
As an Active Duty soldier, I’m not allowed to pick on any particular political party. However, Michelle Malkin and The Nose on Your Face are. Lucky bastards.

As an Active Duty soldier, I’m not allowed to pick on any particular political party. However, Michelle Malkin and The Nose on Your Face are. Lucky bastards.

This graffiti showed up on some walls in a local national parking lot not long before I left. I was told it is a memorial to locals who had worked for the USA and been killed.
This is a mural I saw on Victory Base Complex in Baghdad. Obviously, it's supposed to show the heroic former Iraqi army. There's a painted-over figure on the left. I'm guessing that was Saddam.
This is a typical truck driven by private security. It's armored to some extent, and features a "gun bucket" in the back for a rear gunner's position.
QWBC, the FOB I was on, was an old Iraqi air force base and there were some of these old, beat fighters still lying around.
Me practicing shooting an AK47. As you can tell, it was a hot day. It was fun shooting the AK on full auto, but I still prefer the M4.
This is the Perfume Palace on Victory Base Complex in Baghdad. The story I heard was that this was once where Saddam and his boys kept their extra-curricular female companions. Now, it houses contractors.
Believe it or not, this is what they served for dinner one night. I think it was a case of a Turk not translating to English correctly.
Believe it or not, it does rain in Iraq, as these poor soldiers found out when they tried to move this large forklift over some muddy ground.
If you fly much in Iraq, then you've likely been on one of these - a C-17. They are much better to fly in than C-130s.
This mosque, I was told, was Saddam's personal mosque near the Al Faw palace. Now, it's located on Victory Base Complex.
While in Iraq, you get a one-week MWR trip to Qatar. On one of the trips we were allowed to take, this Qatari was selling camel rides. I didn't bother with it.
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