Major in Iraq; Minor in Health Care Whackjobbery

You may have seen the front page story today in the Times about the top US military advisor in Baghdad who wrote a limited distribution memo circulated through US command in Iraq advocating a sped up withdrawal of US military forces. Not that it necessarily tells us anything about the quality of his Iraq analysis. But it turns out that the memo originated on a blog the colonel kept at Townhall.com where he also wrote (his only other post) a totally unhinged screed about Obamacare.