Pictures from a quagmire

Forgive the sarcasm. Or not. But either way, go look at these pictures. And then if you haven't read Michael Yon's whole history of the war in Mosul from 22 Jan 2005 to the present: he knows a heckuva lot more about what's going on than you do, and he's gone to a heckuva lot more personal risk to get the real story than anybody at CNN's even thought of going to, and if you haven't started at the first post in his archives and read through all the up to the present date (from bottom to top in the "Previous Dispatches" list), you don't yet have any business bloviating about how badly the war in Iraq is going. If you've read him, and you still think we are not winning this war and that all is hopeless, why then we have a difference of opinion, and I can respect that. But if you haven't read him, then, with all due and genuine respect, go do your homework before we talk any more.