Because of the MSM’s lack of desire and/or inability to give an accurate report of all events on the ground in Iraq additional sources of information, preferrably people as close to the situation as possible, are incredibly important.
While reading this important piece at Human Events about the group “Vets for Freedom” I came across another in the field reporter currently embedded in Iraq, Jeff Emanuel. Jeff’s work, coupled with Michael Yon, Michael Totten and Bill Roggio’s, presents a necessary supplement to the MSM’s narrow coverage of events and is sounding the same type of themes that “Vets for Freedom” are going to D.C. to tell members of Congress about. Their home site is here and these are the type of people that Buzz Patterson told me about around a year ago. A new generation of people fed up with defeatists in D.C..

Let’s wish them luck in pressuring Congress.

Update:  Some Congressional Democrats have apparently gotten wind of the progress being made via the surge and are talking about it.  Good news.