Anyone who’s watched news coverage about Iraq over the last 25 years or so has probably seen Tariq Aziz. He was a part of Saddam Hussein’s inner circle from the first day the dictator took power. However, unlike ‘Chemical Ali’ and the rest of Saddam’s henchman, Aziz was never a strong man for the regime.
He […]

read more from this topic.....

In his latest column, NY Times Op-ed writer Frank Rich gets it wrong (as usual) when talking about Iraq. This week in particular Frank misses the mark with his explanation of why movies about the Iraq war do so poorly at the Box Office.
He claims Americans want to avoid talking about the war or seeing […]

read more from this topic.....

Petreus giving his testimony was on CNN last night..
Instapundit has his testimony here
My summary: Not all sweetness and light, but a hard slog, getting there slowly. Sounds about right.
But seeing Petreus testify reminded me that straight talkers who have quiet authority and integrity tend to play well on television, but politicians who talk too much […]

read more from this topic.....

Assalamualaikum, Islamic Greetings of Peace
Peace Tv is a household name not only in Pakistan  but also  entire Muslim world.because it has presented a convincing picture of Islam through wise talks, debates and dialogues.
Infact Ijaz ul Haq, son of late Zia ul Haq, a minister in Musharaf’s government is a big fan of Dr.  Zakir Naik. […]

read more from this topic.....

Why is this hue and cry about anti Islamic Dutch film? How long will the Muslims keep on nagging to the world about their suffering? How long one fifth of the world’s population think themselves to be inefficient? This moral lethargy of the community makes the world believe that Islam promotes violence and hatred towards […]

read more from this topic.....

Catholicism migrated to the area of the Persian Gulf in the early 4th century. However, the history of the Catholic Church in this area has always been difficult. Nestorianism rose as a heretical movement among the faithful followers regarding the person of Jesus Christ. Nestorians believed Jesus had two distinct persons, one as Jesus the […]

read more from this topic.....

At last!  A serving British Army General has exposed the British Army’s “hearts and minds” strategy for the failure that it is, and always was.  Quoted in the Daily Mail last week, senior army commander, Lieutenant-General Graeme Lamb said “…the image of winning hearts and minds is almost ridiculous…”
The general gave succinct rationale for his […]

read more from this topic.....

This article is a second release of this musing. It was published last June, but should have another revisit by Catholic readers. In light of the recently listed “sins” that include those against the environment. HJMN
There are always ways that the Catholic Church can join in the environmental movement in small but yet effective ways. […]

read more from this topic.....

Senator Clinton was civil until she started losing. Obama is answering her, charge by charge. This is not going to be enough. The Clintons have a veritable Kitchen Sink Factory to create weapons to hurl at their opponents. But Hillary’s own tub is full of dirty bathwater. Maybe it’s time for Obama to throw the […]

read more from this topic.....

The stink is in the air! The bitter stink of defeat! Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s president, can smell it in what he hopes is a victory for one of America’s Liberal candidates. Either one would be fine by him — Obama and Clinton are both poised to rapidly abandon Iraq and he, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is poised […]

read more from this topic.....

The MSM views the creation of a second Muslim state in Europe as a positive development, seeing it as a satisfyingly just conclusion to the suffering inflicted on ethnic Albanians  by Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, whose repressive measures against the minority culminated in the Srebrenica massacre.
Here are a few alternative views about this legacy of […]

read more from this topic.....

Autism Campaigners around the world are appealing for greater support on Autism Sunday 2008 - the International Day of Prayer for Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome.
Churches of all denominations will be remembering over 60 million people worldwide who are on the autism spectrum, in prayer.Parents groups and charities have been calling for more support and better […]

read more from this topic.....

ABOUT THE PRIMARIES/CAUCUSES:
—If Romney ends up losing the election, as a consolation prize how about turning over our welfare system to the Mormons? They have one for their own members that functions quite well. Since ours performs like a blind elephant playing hockey, what have we got to lose?
—Hillary now seems to be carrying the […]

read more from this topic.....

I may vote for someone I don’t like. John Edwards is a junkyard dog dressed in a collie suit. He is not a nice guy. But the last thing we need in the White House is someone likeable who lacks the savvy and ruthlessness to muscle through nice “plans.”
Behind the slick smile and underneath the […]

read more from this topic.....

Okay, I have always had my suspicions about this Josef Joffe guy at Die Zeit. I think he may even be like a closet American (igitt!) or something. But whatever the hell he is, he has now obviously gone off the deep end. This just has to stop. Somebody might actually start reading this stuff and […]

read more from this topic.....

From Churchill’s Parrot blog 
(Hear Charlie’s oral presentation of the following post here.)
“It was the deep knowledge–and pray God we have not lost it–that there is a profound, moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest.”
- President Ronald Reagan,  40th Anniversary of the D-Day Invasion, Pointe du Hoc, […]

read more from this topic.....

Synonyms for the word “ally” include “friend,” “helper,” “partner” and “supporter.” What kind of “ally” has Turkey been to the U.S. in Iraq? Duplicitous and double-dealing. 
Here’s just the latest example. 
The U.S. had set up a spy center in Ankara so Turks, Iraqis and Americans can share information about the movements and activities of Kurdish Workers’ […]

read more from this topic.....

I usually listen to podcasts to go to sleep…LINK is a good place to start. It’s better than a sleeping pill.
But one of last week’s podcasts was one of the US Catholic bishops (you know, the ones that dismissed and covered it up when that nice Father played hide the sausage with 13 year old […]

read more from this topic.....

As late as 2005 U.S. intelligence agencies had “high confidence” that Iran was building a bomb, but in a stunning reversal the latest National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) ordered by Congress in 2006 concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003. The Israelis and Iranian dissidents, in particular, are not buying it - and […]

read more from this topic.....

Yup. the Iraqi insurgency hit the pet market in Baghdad yesterday.
I mean, what a way to win “hearts and minds”: kill that unIslamic “foufou” poochie and parakeets, not to mention kids.
The US is blaming the Iranians, not Al quaeda, this time, and that makes sense: The Mullahs have been clamping down on the infidel dogs […]

read more from this topic.....

Most of the news from Iraq is bad…and some would say it is ignored.
Yet thanks to the “surge” (and the change of tactics to those similar to what Magsaysay used to clean up Luzon), small candles of hope are starting to be lit in that country.
So refugees are starting to trickle back.
And Christian churches are […]

read more from this topic.....

In the aftermath of Blackwater, non-lethal crowd control is an issue that commanders in Iraq very much have on their minds. They may soon have a new weapon to use as early as next year. It’s not a science fiction weapon, but one that’s been in the making for the last decade.
There’s been some buzz […]

read more from this topic.....

U.S. State Department to-do list:
1-Further U.S. interests.
2-Fight terror.
3-Stymie Iran.
…
450-Freeze Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ assets.
Why this move comes now is a puzzler. The question is: why, after much evidence that Iran has contributed to the deaths of U.S. servicemen in Iraq, hasn’t the economic screws been applied before? U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, complains of the Revolutionary Guards […]

read more from this topic.....

Those who read Slate or are following the right wing blogosphere know the latest on the Beauchamp scandal, thanks to Drudge, who posted three PDF files on his website (and then removed them).
For those unfamiliar with the controversy, a young man (married to a fact cheker at The New Republic) sent a series of supposedly […]

read more from this topic.....

After running a string of editorials against the Armenian Genocide Resolution (fourth item) – plus an anti-Armenian diatribe written by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan – The Wall Street Journal belatedly lets the other side present its case when it’s too late to resuscitate the symbolic bill. On Friday’s edition of “The Journal Editorial […]

read more from this topic.....

The things you read on the internet.
The left wing UK Prospect magazine has a long article here, stating that the UN approved coalition of troops in Iraq essentially have won the war.
Huh?
Even I wasn’t aware of that first fact:
 The UN approved the coalition’s role in May 2003, and the mandate has been renewed annually since […]

read more from this topic.....

When Saddam was pulled out of his spider-hole, his hair and beard were grey and straggley.
Not a photo that would make it in Vogue or GQ.
But later, at his trial, Saddam was back to his usual sartorial elegance, his hair neatly combed and no longer showing a touch of grey.
Was it real, or Miss Clairol? […]

read more from this topic.....

A pregnant woman being murdered. Innocent people being shot at close range. An old man’s body found riddled with holes from a power drill. Another man found dead, hanging on a meat hook.Did you miss this story? The article was written by David Corn in The Nation and also published in The Washington Post. The […]

read more from this topic.....

Here in the Philippines, there is a “love/hate” relationship with the USA…Personally people love Americans and many like our family have lots of family members living there.
But the US has to be very polite when they visit, for any hint that they are trying to boss the Philippine people around brings a sharp backlash, and […]

read more from this topic.....

Thomas Friedman thinks you are “stupid” if you still care about the atrocity committed against this country by Islamofascists in New York on 9/11/2001. He thinks “9/11 is over” and we all should just move on. Even worse, he has decided that we are no longer a great country, but are filled with seemingly meaningless […]

read more from this topic.....