people back here. These soldiers have so much class. It reminds me of the book that John Stossel did a segment on called "Who really gives" or something like that. Republicans and religious people gave at much higher percentages and the U.S. gave more as a percentage than most (if not all countries). They gave more in both money and time and to non religious as well as religious charities.

It's time for Repbulicans to start taking back the caring image that the Democrats have destroyed despite facts to the contrary. They need to scream loud and hard and stop letting dems portray us as Racist, homophobic and uncaring of poor people. They only need to use the facts to do it.

Compared that to the "ghosts" NYC Chinatown's dishwashers who contributed to Hillary's campaign funds which was front and center in leftoid media's reporting...which backfired! 

I don't know how many soldiers had to pony up for them to raise $1000 but, considering how little they make, it must have been quite a few.

I'm struck by the fact that these men are sacrificing for American civilians. It would seem that they recognize a moral debt to the country that sacrificed so much for them. It goes without saying that this message is lost on the anti-war crowd.

By ignoring this story, the MSM spits on them. Tell me that doesn't sound familiar.

Noel, checking out the LATimes, and I see no mention of the news. The LATimes has, of course, provided wall to wall coverage of the fires, their perceived failures of leadership in fighting the fires, how poorly the insurance companies are expected to perform, and the plight of illegal immigrants caught up in the fire areas.  There also are two stories in the last days involving the Camp Pendleton base here, and two soldiers who died in Iraq.

But no heart warming good news will be heard by those who need to hear it.

PS - and the LA Times skipped out telling it's readers that the late President Ford had a few dicey bits of information to share with his fellow Americans - suspect something in there might have tarnished someone's legacy and raised concerns of a return trip to his old stalking grounds. 

I saw this yesterday at WorldNetDaily. I hoped someone would pick it up here, because heaven knows the MSM won't do jack with it. I mean, how can they put forth their theory that we are wasting our time, the Iraqis don't appreciate it, etc. if stuff like this happens???

These guys don't get paid much; every one of them made a sacrifice to give. And they had to know the US doesn't really need the money; it was done as a gesture of good will, and to show that they wanted to help, even with a small amount.

Les't see....how much did France send? How about Germany?  The rest of the EU??

I rest my case.

The MSM can't report on this because they can't be sure that this represents a trend in charitable giving by Iraqis to American victims of natural disasters.