<p>Speculation is already surfacing that “Lt Tom Cotton” is a pen name and not a real Lt serving in Iraq/ Evidently a “Tom Cotton” is the fictional name of a hobbit from the Lord of the Rings stories and that the Cotton farm was the base of operations for the Hobbits’ war against the Ruffians who had overrun the “Shire”.</p>
<p>Hopefully this is not true. Manipulation and dis-information seems to be the tool of choice these days by forces on both sides of the Iraq war argument.</p>
<p>Who the heck knows what is truth sometimes.</p>