I very much enjoy playing golf, and as a follower of the game I also enjoy watching golf. The thing that makes or breaks a broadcast (you listening NFL Network) is the commentary provided by the sportscasters. If you have good people they can take a weak tournament and make it like The Masters, 72'nd hole and the Cinderella kid is about to sink a 15 foot birdie to win.
Enter my all time favorite golf commentator, David Feherty. You might also know him from the Cobra golf club ads, or maybe the voice from Tiger Woods Golf by EA Sports.
It turns out that February last year he went on a USO tour to Iraq and Kuwait to meet the troops and try to help them get a break for just a while.
Just read the intro, and I'd be willing to bet you will read all four pages of his 'diary'.
He came. He saw. He inhaled half the desert. David Feherty spent six days in Iraq & Kuwait on a USO tour. His mission: Make our brave troops laugh. This is his personal journal — both hilarious and heartbreaking — from the front lines
All I can say is the article is well written, very funny in some spots but dashes to the other extreme on more than one occasion.
Around the perimeter, we visited a Harrier Jump Jet squadron. They'd planted in their sandy range a 3-by-3-foot board bearing my smiling puss, which they use for target practice. "I can do you one better," I told one airman and ran to the 100-yard mark, dropped my pants, and gave them something to shoot for — a thin sliver of Arabian moon. But the hole was too tight, even for major champions Lehman and Watson. "I missed on purpose," Harmon said. "No one wants that kind of a lie for a second shot."
A different perspective on Saddam:
The marble interior is a thin veneer, held on by liquid nails; the massive chandelier in the entrance hall is made of Perspex. The place looks like Saddam sent a few of the Republican Guard down to the Home "Despot" to buy materials and do the job themselves. It's big, hollow, and falling apart on its foundation of camel dung. On the way up to the general's office, Inman had a senior moment and went up an extra flight of stairs, almost setting off a total lockdown. We put him on a leash for the rest of the visit.
Remember this article was written February '07, read it, think about what he is saying in these 4 pages and compare that to what we have heard from our news services and more importantly from our beloved politicians. Who do you think is telling you the truth?
The mother of all quotes in this story?
The closer we get to Baghdad, the more I suspect that the smartest Americans are in Iraq, and they get progressively dumber the closer you get to Washington.
All I can say is, Thank you David for taking the time to go, for cheering up the folks you had a chance to meet with, and also for writing the story for the rest of us. May your Ice Cream scoop always be cold, and your bowl always full.
