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****07/11/07 ConcreteBob and I were discussing politics this morning and he says "Your boy is doing a good job". I said "I beg your pardon?" Bob has met my older son, but I have no idea what he's talking about. "Your boy. Your boy, Lynch." LOL!!! He is talking about Major General Rick Lynch. Hilarious.

So Chuck over at America's North Shore Journal (always a good read), has been tracking an important trend in our military.

Beauty Queens.

Yes, that's right. Beauty Queens. He's up to three.

I emailed and being a smartass said, "LOL Chuck, I am starting to wonder about you. All these beauty queens, hmmmmmmmmm. Where is your mind focused!"

His answer? "Not on General Lynch, I can tell you."

I almost fell off of my chair, shrieking in laughter. I sputtered back something about his being a brat, but.......................that was a direct hit!!!!

Oh well, might as well.................post some Rick Lynch stuff!

Analysis: Lynch's case for surge -- Part 1
By PAMELA HESS
UPI Pentagon Correspondent
WASHINGTON, July 9 (UPI) -- A top U.S. general in Iraq predicted disaster Friday if surge forces are brought home too quickly.
"It would be a mess," said Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, commander of the 3rd Infantry Division, which is conducting operations just south of Baghdad in known insurgent sanctuaries.
"Those surge forces are giving us the capability we have now to take the fight to the enemy, and the enemy only responds to force, and we now have that force," he said. "If those surge forces go away, that capability goes away, and the Iraqi security forces aren't ready yet to do that.
"If you did that ... you'd find the enemy regaining ground, re-establishing a sanctuary, building more (improvised explosive devices), carrying those IEDs in Baghdad, and the violence would escalate."

Analysis: Lynch's case for surge -- Part 2
By PAMELA HESS
UPI Senior News Analyst
WASHINGTON, July 10 (UPI) -- A senior U.S. general in Iraq has warned that Iraqi security forces will not be capable of operating independently for the foreseeable future.
Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, who commands the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division conducting operations south of Baghdad, Friday laid out the problem in leaving Iraq clearly for Pentagon reporters. And he acknowledged that U.S, ground forces operating in that country have never had the sufficient number of troops on the ground that they needed to fulfill all their security commitments there.
"What you've heard before from all of the commanders here in Iraq is we never have enough forces, and we could use even more forces. It doesn't have to be coalition forces, but for sure Iraqi security forces to reach out," he said.

This is the guy to be listening to, not Harry Reid.