We finally opened an airport close to where the action is. Now we can bring in those cargo planes and hopefully regain some lost momentum. We've been losing momentum since day one. The airport is up in the Kurdish region. Now we see a glimmer of failed strategy. We planned all along to funnel people in through an airport closer to Baghdad, but we just assumed it would be in Turkey. That's why we didn't try to open one on the ground on the way in from the south; even after Ankhara backed out. Wasn't part of the plan for the southern troops. Oops. Sigh. What a mess. Maybe the weather will hold (another poor assumption as we discovered) and we can get this war back on track.

Playing with some alternate guitar tunings today. D-A-D-G-A-D is pretty popular for blues. I'm gonna' try out B-A-G-D-A-D; just for the heck of it.

In another display of our blind arrogance, some of our wounded GI's are telling their stories. Gee, nobody ever told us these guys might start shooting at us. That wasn't part of the plan...

The bush calls up a hundred thousand additional troops, not counting the twenty thousand or so from the 4th. If this isn't an admission of how badly this thing is being run, I don't know what is. And they still aren't thinking. These troops need materiel to survive. We can feed them for a brief period from our current stocks, but we need to get more stocks over there. That takes a few months, as we've already witnessed. Heck it takes a couple months to get the troops in. Everybody is talking tactics, but that's not where it's at. Wars aren't won by tactics. They're won by logistics. No matter how good or how big the army is, you've still got to feed the boys.