It’s all about Tony Stark, the billionaire weapons designer and CEO of Stark Enterprises.  He’s a womanizer, but you’d still let him date your sister.  He’s everything you hate about everything you stand against, and yet he oozes charm so that you just don’t care and you want to like him. More importantly, you want […]

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Outside the Wire
Yes someone has actually produced a documentary/movie that does not trash American soldiers. In fact the DVD in question is a collection of three documentaries on the experience of a group of American soldiers in Iraq.
The docs range from the nitty gritty of combat against al Q; complete with two truck bombs […]

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 ’Beauty of Islam’
The strident smear campaign against Islam and Muslims following 9/11 in the US encouraged many American men and women to study and embrace Islam, Yusuf Estes, a leading Islamic scholar and preacher from Texas, said on Friday night.
“They are doing the job for us,” Estes, himself a convert, said while delivering a lecture […]

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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 […]

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) had some harsh words for President Bush’s announcement that there will be a halt to troop withdrawals from Iraq in July.

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Today while speaking in Aliquippa, PA Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called on President Bush to use his speech tomorrow to talk about the endgame for the Iraq war.

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While speaking at the national VFW Headquarters in Kansas City, MO today, Republican presidential candidate John McCain was looking ahead towards victory in Iraq, while labeling Clinton and Obama dishonest about Iraq.

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Perhaps because I have lived in countries with insurgencies, I’m a little cynical about the US press covereage of Iraq. They seem willing and able to report Iraq as Viet Nam, while I see it as Colombia, or Algeria, or Luzon, or maybe even Mindanao.
The problem? The politicization of coverage as an “us versus them” […]

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“John McCain is not a warmonger and should not be described as such,” Ms. Psaki [an Obama spokesperson] said. “He’s a supporter of a war that Senator Obama believes should have never been authorized and never been waged.”
This statement was made in response to a radio talk show host who called Sen. McCain a “warmonger” […]

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In this week’s Democratic response to President Bush’s weekly radio address, former Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) argued that the troop surge in Iraq has been a failure.

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Last week, six planes coming in to land at Sydney airport have had green lasers pointed at their cockpits in what seems to be a coordinated attack, in which three or four different lasers were pointed at airplanes landing at that airport.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the attack was bad enough that they closed […]

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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 […]

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This week’s Democratic radio address was delivered by Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and focused on the beginning the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, and its costs at home and abroad. Menendez started by praising the troops then said, “When it comes to honoring and supporting our troops and their families, Democrats and Republicans stand as one. But when it comes to the decisions that got us into the war - and the flawed policies that keep us there - Democrats stand firmly apart from our Republican friends. In 2003, President Bush took us to war on the wings of a lie.”

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On Monday Hillary Clinton gave a speech on how she would end the Iraq war, while today Barack Obama gave a speech marking the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war, so I thought it would be valuable to compare each of the two candidates’ statements and policies on this issue.

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I listened as deputy D.O.D Secretary England introduce George Bush for a speech on the five year anniversary of the war. He used words that would describe Men like U.S Grant and Robert Lee, Lincoln and Stone Wall Jackson, Pershing and MacArthur, Patton and Marshal. England spoke with all the enthusiasm of a senior cult […]

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The White House has released early excerpts of a speech President Bush will be giving at the Pentagon on Wednesday to mark the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the war in Iraq. The president does acknowledge that the war came at a high price, but also continues to maintain that the U.S. is winning.

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From Churchill’s Parrot blog
The undaunted asininity of the vast majority of the “Anti-War”/ Peace Movement” in regards to Operation Iraqi Freedom necessitates that each year we update and post our IRAQ INVASION ONLINE REFRESHER COURSE.  To this day chants of “Bush Lied People Died” - though fewer in number and lesser in rabidity - can […]

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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 […]

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Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton gave what was billed as a major policy address at George Washington University today on her three part plan for ending the war in Iraq. Clinton spent an unusual amount of time during the early part of her address attacking both John McCain and Barack Obama.

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Vice President Dick Cheney sets out to shock and awe us all with a surprise visit to Iraq.

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Cost of War  
According to many sources, both inside and outside the government, the Global War on Terror (GWOT) has a predicted life-time cost of between 350 and 700 billion in terms of providing disability compensation and direct medical costs for the Gulf War veterans. The   terms of its current costs, Linda Bilmes, Harvard University’s Kennedy […]

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I’ve been a bit upset about reports of a Chaldean Catholic Bishop who was kidnapped and murdered in Mosul, whose body was found a few days ago. You see, years ago, while working in Africa as a doc, several of my friends were killed, and so attacks against the innocent have a way of bringing […]

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With the large amount of films (In the Valley of Elah, Stop Loss, The Kingdom) and documentaries (No End in Sight, Operation Homecoming) addressing the current war in Iraq, coupled with five years of news coverage,  it may seem like there is no way for politically minded people to get their point across to the masses. […]

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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 […]

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A lot of the headlines are implying that the recent elections in Pakistan, which resulted in Musharraf’s party losing to the Pakistan People’s Party, being led by the late President Bhutto’s husband, was a defeat for Bush’s policies and the war on terror.
This type of superficial reporting (all the bad news all the time, especially […]

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The press seems to be busy canonizing Obama as the next Messiah, with one story after another discussing his charisma, his success among minorities, and contrasting his “successful” campaign against that of Hillary Clinton, who is noticed mainly in news stories reporting her impending demise.
I predict that by convention time, Democrats will face the problem […]

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Some people do not believe it is possible to support the troops without supporting the war; this is nonsense that is promulgated, mainly, by extremists who use their heads for hat racks and little else. What they are saying is that a “patriotic American” must love everything that his or her government tells them is […]

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From CHURCHILL’S PARROT blog
John McCain is Winston Churchill?  We think not. Nonetheless the comparison is rather in vogue, some less asinine than others. Everyone agrees he is no Ronald Reagan. But then, of course, neither was Ronald Reagan. Rush, Anne, Sean, and Laura are betraying the Party. The Party is betraying Conservativism. What’s a Republican […]

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FLAG telecom, the internet company who owns the cables off the coast of Egypt that were cut last week, is busy repairing them with two ships at the site.
The cause of one of the cut cables has been found, and is reported by CNN to have been an abandoned six ton ship’s anchor. An the […]

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From Churchill’s Parrot Blog
Initially many of us found the news that over one fifth the British population believed Sir Winston Churchill to be nothing more than myth shocking, breathtaking, unnerving, infuriating, and deeply depressing.  However, there is a bright side! 
As the Left clips along in its campaign to make the real false and the false […]

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