Flutterby™! : Military appreciation

Over at Sgt Stryker's Daily Briefing there's a report of a woman in uniform getting hassled in Oakland. I'm still of the opinion that war in Iraq is inevitable, but mainly because of the mistakes of a bunch of bozos. Anyway, having become more aware recently of what various people will give to maintain the culture that I call home, I must remember to personally thank the next person I see in uniform.

Speaking of which, Dori links to a report that quite a few of the British "human shields" are leaving Baghdad now that they've realized that they don't get any say in what they're shielding, and are in reality going to be positioned around mixed-use or military installations. Again, over at SSDB, Sparkey looks at the Geneva convention and asks "Human Shields or Mercenaries?".