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Episode 88 of the Consider This Podcast has been released; conservative commentary in 10 minutes or less. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has accused Republicans in the House of Representatives of obstruction by not passing bills. What he’s not saying (and what you’re not hearing, depending on your source of news) is that there are hundreds […]
Episode 87 of the Consider This Podcast has been released; conservative commentary in 10 minutes or less. The President has, in the past, said some things about the situation in Iraq and some of the players that he’s had to take back recently (or at least ignore). Now, we all know that Presidents can’t be perfect prognosticators. They […]
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., a leading Senator on the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, is urging the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) to continue operating Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Balkan Service and Radio Free Iraq. According to a press release from the senator’s office, Senator Wicker […]
In the midst of growing concerns with the United States’ relations with Middle Eastern countries, many experts and policymakers have been speculating upon the best plan of action moving forward. A recent prediction of a grim future in Afghanistan shows how tensions with Iraq are also mounting. With the threat of fractured foreign relations looming […]
I agree with the one who told the parable of the Good Samaritan: that those who passed the man hurt by thieves would be partly responsible if he died. Yet life is a bit more complicated in reality. A few days ago, Kerry (said that he will) hold objectors to Obama’s wishes as responsible for […]
In the forward to Jay Riedel’s new book “Memories of a Fighter Pilot,” General Charles “Chuck” Horner, USAF (ret.) writes, “No fighter pilot is ordinary, but Jay’s story is extraordinary. “ Extraordinary? With all due respect to the good general, I would say that Riedel’s story goes beyond extraordinary, by a large measure. Consider […]
Ah yes. If you even tried to question the original spin of the Obama administration that the attack on the Benghazi mission was about an X rated porn film clumsily redubbed to seem as if was about the Prophet, you are an evil Republican trying to politicize national defense. That spin managed to silence Romney, […]
A lot of the news about the Middle East is politicized in the US press, but today’s reports are not good. The Reuters news agency Religion section has this article, that cautions: The fabric of Middle Eastern society has fundamentally changed. Being Muslim has replaced being Arab as the primary identifying factor. The consequences are […]
In Syria, the war is getting nasty. One recent massacre of women and children is being touted as the reason for someone (NATO? Turkey? The UN?) to step in and stop the killing. And news reports of the government bombing civilian areas make many shudder. StrategyPage points out that a lot of the massacres are […]
“Traumatic grief, with its unanswered questions, its numbing shock, its horror, its ability to sear disturbing images into our souls that cannot be erased by sleep or by time–this process follows the same general path both for persons and groups.†When 12:30 struck, none of us fourth graders knew that our young president was being […]
As the world is playing catch with the events in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and other Arab Spring focal points, Iran is very busy. Trying to keep people oppressed in light of Arab Spring revolutions surely keeps the regime in Iran occupied. But more than that, viewing once strongman like Mubarak and Gadaffi defeated, jailed […]
Well, this year’s Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally got some publicity today when Sarah Palin and family accompanied them as private citizens. As the mother of an Iraqi veteran, she is entitled to this. Most of the half million attending the rally seemed pleased. So of course most of the press coverage was about Andrea Mitchell […]
By Jefferson Flanders The reasons for American disagreement over President Barack Obama’s decision to go to war in Libya can be found in historical and fundamental differences over the proper role of the United States in world affairs. While it’s easy to see any argument over US foreign policy in the traditional terms of internationalists […]
While the US headlines were full of Charlie Sheen’s rants and news of labor union protests in Wisconsin, here in the Philippines, the headlines are about our stranded OFW (overseas foreign workers) in Libya. Every paper has photos of those who escaped arriving at the Manila airport, and the Philippine Inquirer notes that the government […]
I can already smell the bong resin emanating from the radical marijuana legalization crowd that supports Ron Paul to the point of being cult-like, breathing down fire upon my comments section. You would have thought I punched the pope at Christmas mass after my last article on Ron Paul. I feel very strongly that Ron […]
A lot of nonsense being written about Afghanistan: Some see it as a hopeless war, but the dirty little secret is that Afghanistan is about protecting India and the Silk Road (the central Asian countries with their oil and gas resources) for India and China. But what to do about Afghanistan? It’s not true that […]
If you fail to respond to all these conditions, then prepare for fight with the Islamic Nation. The Nation of Monotheism, that puts complete trust on Allah and fears none other than Him. The Nation which is addressed by its Quran with the words:
“Do you fear them? Allah has more right that you should fear Him if you are believers. Fight against them so that Allah will punish them by your hands and disgrace them and give you victory over them and heal the breasts of believing people.
With all the hyperbolic political rhetoric in the blogosphere, one wonders if the American people are indeed “having a temper tantrum”. Or maybe the patience of the American people with political correctness is now finished. Example one: After years of the American public watching news reports of suicide bombings, or lashing raped women, destroying Hindu […]
There is a minor kerfuffle in the right wing blogs about Michael Bellesiles being caught publishing fiction as truth. The right wing has it in for Bellesiles, since he once faked data on gun ownership in early America, trying to prove no one owned guns then (and ergo the second amendment was meant to refer […]
I can see the outrage by animals lovers everywhere after they read the AP headline: Baghdad kills 58,000 stray dogs in 3-month span It’s all about rabies. One reason that Islam says that dogs are “unclean” was because stray dogs carry rabies and other diseases. (These edicts did not go against hunting or watch dogs, […]
Reporters are busy reporting the story of the day, but often they miss the big picture, preferring to report stories as a race horse betting game. Example: Michael Steele said that Afghanistan is the President’s war. What will Rush say? Will that make Obama’s popularity poll go up or down? Time out, fellahs. Because a […]
General Mc Chrystal has committed a major breech in protocol when he openly criticized the President and the President’s plans for Afghanistan in an interview in the Rolling Stone. For the sake of our democracy, such behavior cannot be tolerated. He needs to be relieved from duty. Why do I say this? No, I am […]
Wiki Leaks has posted a full version and a shorter version of a military operation in Iraq. They call it  Collateral Murder. I am angry at these bleeding hearts who think that war is where everyone fights fair and plays fair. Wiki Leaks proclaims they have scientifically analyzed this video and declare that murder was […]
That was then: We are in a war because the Generals want to play with their toys and don’t give a damn how many people get hurt in the process. We are in a war without direction, or discipline, led by a disengaged simpleton who will do whatever he is told by the unelected war […]
A small factoid on StrategyPage: the last decade has produced, for the first time, a large number of female combat veterans. There are nearly a quarter million of them, including over 5,000 receiving disability benefits (for injuries received in combat, or non-combat, operations). Until recently, the “official” story was that woman were not allowed to […]
Seeing Tony Blair yesterday at the Iraq war enquiry made me realise just how good a politician he was – surely the best communicator of modern times and intellectually robust as well. But, and it’s a massive but, his driving force was (and is) utterly wrong. It wasn’t socialism, or Europeanism, or Anglo-Americanism or any […]
Pacifism –noun 1. Opposition to war or violence of any kind. 2. Refusal to engage in military activity because of one’s principles or beliefs. 3. The principle or policy that all differences among nations should be adjusted without recourse to war. In my post yesterday I mentioned that a so-called conservative friend on my facebook […]
In my daily attempt to shed light on the liberal’s statist agenda that seeks to convert our fine republic into a socialist doormat for the world, I come across a great many characters with quite a few interesting viewpoints. Throughout 2009, as President Obama and the liberal congress made it increasingly obvious that the oath […]
Today saw the first day of a public inquiry taking place in London into the events surrounding the British Government’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003. The hearing, conducted by retired civil servant Sir John Chilcot, aims to help answer key questions such as whether the government put pressure on legal experts, notably the then […]
The NYTimes has an article on “violence” at Fort Hood. At Army Base Some Violence is All To Familiar” the headlines cry. Yes, one more “Ain’t it awful” report on how violent veterans are, without mentioning that the “violent crime” rate is still lower than that of Chicago. The problems of violence on military bases […]
It is now a little over two years to the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and when that doleful event comes round can there be any doubt that we will have to say that the terrorists have won a victory beyond their wildest imaginings? In the immediate aftermath of the attacks on New York and Washington […]
Michael Jackson was a pop star icon who earned the title, ‘King of Pop.’ He was a talented singer and dancer who broke down barriers for the African-American community. Unfortunately, he was also a tortured soul who suffered through two marriages and divorces, along with medical and substance abuse problems. His lifestyle and behavior often […]
An article on the left-leaning website Truthout announced yesterday that a “new direction in the war on terror” may result from a case that occurred in the last year of the Bush Administration. Bryant Neal Vinas, an American-born suspected terrorist who was captured in Pakistan, was given “all the rights of American criminal suspects.” The results? […]
Shortly after President Obama delivered his speech to the Muslim World in Egypt, the news was filled with reactions by individuals and by other countries. There are two reactions in particular that are worth a second thought: the thoughts of Prince Saud al-Faisal, the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia and the reactions of Ayatollah Ali […]
I am happy that President Obama is trying to mend fences with Arabs and Iranians in the Middle East by giving a speech in Cairo. And many Americans agree, although many think he is being naive, or is sending a message to the radicals in the area that he is willing to “throw Israel under […]
I seethed in anger last March, when Nancy Pelosi helped to jiggle the votes for the Democratic convention so that the super-delegates and the caucuses would be able to nullify the popular votes in the primaries. This enabled the hard left, who had hijacked a lot of the caucuses, to have their candidate Barack Obama […]
You may be thinking that I am talking about the female servicemember, but I am actually talking about her counterpart, the military spouse (of which approximately 93 percent are still women).  According to the Rand Corporation, the research organization often used to conduct studies for the Department of Defense, although military spouses often have more […]
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says that the $5 billion in aid poured into Afghanistan by the U.S. Agency for International Development since 2006 has been wasted, and that it is “heartbreaking.” But it’s not just our treasure that has been wasted in Afghanistan, but also the blood of our sons and daughters who fought […]
MEMO TO: Richard Feducci, Overlord of Finance FROM: E Pluribus, Wondergod SUBJECT: Five Year International Finance Plan DATE: January 1, 2005 Happy New Year, Rich. Got some good news and some bad news. The bad news: We’re going to let the American economy crater. The good news: Everybody else’s will, too. The best news: By […]
The esteemed British medical journal, the Lancet, has gotten a black eye in the news lately for articles that were poorly screened and were biased for political/personal reasons. The first one is the 1998 study linking MMR vaccine with Autism. This study has had devastating effects on three fronts: One, the terrible guilt by parents […]
I am beginning to wonder if the American public thinks former President Bush went ahead and brought home all 140,000 troops from Iraq as an inaugural gift for President Obama (you know, so Obama wouldn’t have to trouble himself with it) or if they simply forgot we were still there. Then again, considering the precipitous […]
In June 2007, pursuant to Congressional order, a Department of Defense (DoD) Mental Health Task Force issued a report entitled, “An Achievable Vision,” assessing the mental health needs of the Armed Forces and the ability of the DoD to meet those needs. It came as no surprise to veterans advocates when the Task Force reported that […]
 FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog, January 7, 2009, San Francisco — In yet another show of incredibly poor judgement combined with bad timing and ulterior bureaucratic motives resulting in a major waste of U.S. tax dollars, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), a bipartisan body responsible for U.S. international broadcasts, had silenced Voice of America (VOA) radio […]
There is no doubt that the timeless story of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol†has been rewritten and rehashed dozens of times over throughout the years. But what if Dickens was a subscriber to Rush Limbaugh’s newsletter and had a penchant for Leslie Nielson films. Surely you remember Airplane and The Naked Gun, and yes […]
One US soldier’s wife told me that even though the war in Iraq was essentially over, that some of the terror groups left deliberately targeted non combat American troops with mortars out of hatred for the good they did. So the sad news of the Christmas holidays was that Doctor John Pryor, a Combat surgeon […]
Subtitle: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century Although American Theocracy is Kevin Phillips’ thirteenth book, it is the first one I have read. In fact, I had never even heard of Mr. Phillips until I saw him on Charlie Rose a few years ago. That interview […]
 FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog Commentary by Ted Lipien, December 16, 2008, San Francisco — In The Huffington Post article, “Alhurra TV: Uncle Sam’s Boondoggle“ Dr. Nancy Snow has pointed out a number of serious problems with the U.S. government-funded Alhurra Arabic-language television program for the Middle East and the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), which manages Alhurra. Dr. Snow, […]
Most of the discussion of racism in the US are “ain’t it awful” laments that ignore the dirty little secret of America: That people face less racism in the US than in the rest of the world, and that racism is a slowly disappearing in the United States. Does racism exist? Yes. But next to […]
You might not know it from the headlines, but the war in Iraq is essentially won, and the good guys won. Oh yes, you will still see reports of bombings, but then 50 years after Magsaysay here in the Philippines essentially ended the Huk uprising, we still get kidnappings, murders and killings here by the […]
It is said that every President of the United States has an idiot brother (think Roger Clinton) but with George W Bush he is the idiot brother. Oliver Stone, in his fine new biopic “W.â€, has decided not to exaggerate the absurdities of America’s worst ever President – he doesn’t need to. The facts are […]
M.I.T. graduate Will Bradshaw is co-founder and President of Green Coast Enterprises, using innovative procedures to rebuild New Orleans homes devastated by Katrina. He is pro-life. He is voting for Barack Obama. When Bradshaw describes himself as “pro-life,” he is speaking about an issue that goes beyond the simplistic code word that usually refers only […]
Washington Post columnist George Will has made some great contributions to American letters. I’ve enjoyed reading many of his columns. But it seems he is still lost in an old-fashioned conservatism which is no longer alive. A recent column of his proves my point. There’s no doubt he makes a great point when he says […]
The BBC has an interesting article about a “perfect storm”: economic collapse, high inflation,high unemployment, and an up and coming election. No, not the US: Iran. Some background: A couple months ago, oil prices surged to $150 a barrel, causing food and other everyday commodity prices to climb. Here in the Philippines, the government intervened […]
This September 11, everyone waited with baited breath for the yearly “nyah nyah nyah” video rant from Al Qaeda. More worrisome was that there might be a pep talk to coordinate a pre election attack in the US. But something happened with the Alqaeda websites that usually deliver the videos: They went off line. It […]
John McCain and Sarah Palin have repeated the epithet over and over again ever since Joe the Plumber confused his own tax cut with socialism. Is presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s tax plan a socialist scheme or a wrong made right? Let’s analyze. First, Found Father Benjamin Franklin – America’s first millionaire – was a proponent […]
Rupert Cornwell, the distinguished and experienced US correspondent of London’s Independent newspaper wrote, more in sorrow than in anger that: “Yesterday was not only a black Monday for markets. It was the blackest of Mondays too for the US political system, saddled with a discredited president who has completely lost control of his own party […]
Sen. Barack Obama talks a good game when it comes to such issues as anti-discrimination, the value of military service and the importance of ensuring children get a high-quality education in public schools, but the choices he has made in his own life suggest that he doesn’t believe the stuff in his own stump speeches […]
According to The Long War Journal’s Jane Novak, the US Embassy in Yemen was attacked today by a militant group carrying machine guns, RPG’s, and setting off a series of explosions. The terrorist force was repelled after blowing killing 16 people, and attempting to breach the US compound. After a fierce gun battle, the militants […]
Life is full of stresses, and what now is called “post traumatic stress syndrome” is actually quite widespread in the general population. Abused children, battered wives, those living through life threatening illnesses or accidents all may suffer variations of the syndrome. . As many as 70% of adults in the United States have experienced at […]
The US Army is very worried about suicide and injuries in returning veterans. Stress in soldiers, and in returning veterans, is nothing new: During World War II, PTSD was an even more serious problem. In the European Theater, 25 percent of all casualties were serious PTSD cases, compared to about 20 percent today. In the […]
No grandiose staging for John McCain’s speech accepting the Republican Party’s nomination for president. At his request, convention organizers had reconfigured the stage to build a sort-of fashion model’s catwalk that jutted into the audience so McCain could be amongst them when he addressed them – a more intimate “town hall†type conversation rather than […]
Last year, I took the opportunity to visit Russia for the first time.  It made a big impression on me and I wrote about the country and its people twice (Russian President Putin to visit USA and Russia plans massive Arctic oil grab) in June 2007. The impression I came away with was that Russians […]
 Citing President Bush’s agreeing to a “time horizon†for troop withdrawals from Iraq (second item) and the administration’s having authorized high-level talks with Iran and North Korea, The New York Times notes that McCain – who remains opposed to a timed withdrawal that is not based on conditions on the ground, as well as to […]
After considering the possibility that “foreign leaders Barack Obama met with on his mid-campaign overseas trip were merely hedging their bets and don’t believe he will win the White House this fall†The Associated Press notes that many of them treated the candidate like a head of state:  Jordan’s King Abdullah flew back early from […]
Interfaith dialogs Madrid: A Thinking man’s Observation Welcome with Assalamualaikum,(Peace be upon You) The Interfaith dialogue entered into the second phase with a gathering of prominent Muslims and Non Muslim scholars across the globe upon the invitation of King Abdullah in Madrid, Spain, from 16 July to 18 July. It was my first opportunity to […]
Why did the MSM treat Barack Obama’s guided tour through the Middle East and Europe as a Major Event that required their nightly news anchors to fly to Jordan (CBS’ Katie Couric), Israel (ABC’s Charles Gibson) and Germany (NBC’s Brian Williams)? Believe it or not, John McCain talked them into it, reports The Associated Press: […]
John McCain, of all people, should know that to make a claim, as he did recently, that America is winning the war in Iraq is disingenuous in the extreme. There is no doubt at all that conventional warfare, with battlefield deployment of forces and conventional tactics, will be won by the combatant with the overwhelming […]
And so, at last, the Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic has been arrested and will stand trial in The Hague where he will probably have to answer charges of genocide. The court in The Hague will be properly constituted, the evidence on both sides will be properly judged and Karadzic can expect to […]
Writing in Human Events, Jihad Watch’s Robert Spencer observes that, “[t]hree years after the July 7, 2005, jihad terror attacks in London, the jihad in Britain is stronger than ever. It is not proceeding by means of more terrorism, but by stealth and by the preemptive surrender of all too many British officials.†He explains:  […]
In The Guardian Seumas Milne has forensically demolished the idea that the Iraq War was primarily about anything other than oil. Back in 2003, before the action began, I did the same. I claimed no special insight and used no insider knowledge in making my charge. But it didn’t play too well in the corridors […]
Spring segued into Summer with Hillary Clinton’s white wedding. The hot wack was on as Milady Hill rolled in Joe Sixpack’s arms moaning how Joe wouldn’t go for O. The real wild thing? Mrs. Joe wasn’t jealous. She didn’t dis Hill like Hill’s pals did Bill’s gals. Trailer trash no sirree. Hillary, who served copious […]
Today, President Bush presented the Medal of Honor to the parents of Pfc Ross McGiness. When a grenade was thrown into the hatch of his Humvee, McGiness, who was the gunner, chose not to jump out and save his own life, but to jump down and protect his buddies with his body to save them. […]
From Churchill’s Parrot blog: A recent spat on the Chris Matthew’s television program (“Dancing with the Stars†we believe?) has provided a splendid micro-study of the various bankruptcies which characterize the low-state of political debate currently at play in the last best hope of mankind. May God help us all. First there is intellectual bankruptcy […]
Factions fighting for the control of the oil rich south of Iraq rape and murder daily. Not only do they do this they make their own laws, laws so ridiculous that store owners are threatened for allowing mannequins to show a shoulder. How is this a ‘Mission Accomplished’? How can this be a winnable war? […]
More troops – significantly more – are needed to maintain the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pentagon officials recently acknowledged the fact that existing troops have been assigned multiple rotations and shorter periods between combat assignments in order to take up the slack. The answer is clear: recruit more troops. But normal recruiting efforts have […]
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 […]
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 […]
 ‘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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
“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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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.â€
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.
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 […]
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.
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 – […]
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 […]
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.
Vice President Dick Cheney sets out to shock and awe us all with a surprise visit to Iraq.
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
From Churchill’s Parrot blog This essay began as a response to an e-mail we received from a blogger asking to be removed from our Anglosphere Consortium blogroll because he found the inclusion of Lionheart among our ranks to be distasteful. It has since been written and re-written at least five times, for the points made […]
Lots of stuff in the news that might be terrorism. An attack near the Israeli Embassy in the Mauritania kills three people sitting in a nearby restaurant. Nope, it’s not that they were the gang that couldn’t shoot straight, it was that those in the restaurant wouldn’t shoot back and it gave them time to […]
The last Republican and Democrat presidential candidates left standing met for the final debates of the primary season in CA. The GOP debate, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library near Simi Valley, was notable for the palpable loathing the two frontrunners have for each other. The Dem debate, held at the Kodak Theater in […]
With the surge strategy in Iraq showing progress, the number of horror stories for the NY Times to put on the front page has been severely reduced. However, the liberal media struck gold this week with another rehashing and repackaging of the “Bush lied about Iraq” story. It’s been common practice in recent years during […]
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 […]
I’m old enough to remember when universities and employers had veterans preferences, with the idea that those serving their country should have preference for jobs that they are qualified for. This was mostly a way to say thanks, but was also partly the acknowledgement that a man (or woman) who had been willing to serve […]
If you follow the news, you might not know about Bush’s trip to the Middle East, or what he said there. The NYTimes front page has one article, below a football story, but Al Jezeerah (the only “free” press in the Arab world) with three stories…If you really want a summary, go instead to Gateway […]
From the Times Online: A STUDY that claimed 650,000 people were killed as a result of the invasion of Iraq was partly funded by the antiwar billionaire George Soros. Soros, 77, provided almost half the £50,000 cost of the research, which appeared in The Lancet, the medical journal. Its claim was 10 times higher than […]
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 […]
I’ve written before about the problems with the “Body Count” article published just before the US 2006 Congressional elections in Lancet. LINK LINK2 BizzyBlog has a summary if you aren’t familiar with the story: that right before the US Congressional elections, the Lancet published an article claiming a large number of deaths since the US […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
— “Barefoot and Pregnant: The Secret Life of Hillary Clinton” — Tim LaHaye’s latest Christian horror novel, “Kicked in the Behind” — 2008 Swimsuit Calendar featuring Karl Rove and Fred Thompson — Spinach Patch Doll (Aside from the green, leafy head, the manufacturer swears its adorable.) — “Teaser: Unauthorized Biography of Ann Coulter” (She reportedly […]
I had always assumed the lack of good stories about heroism of the US Military in the MSM was due to bias, or the fact that few reporters wanted to risk their lives embedded with the troops. Well I was wrong. According to a story in today’s Baltimore Sun, it was the Defense Department’s legal […]
An American documentary about the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq will be among four world premiers to take part in the competition at Berlin’s upcoming 58th annual Berlinale Film Festival. “S.O.P.†(Standard Operating Procedures) by director Errol Morris will of course be a purely objective and even-handed look at the examination techniques used by […]
From Churchill’s Parrot blog We are not aware whether or not there exists any legal firm charged with the protection of the Adolf Hitler estate and its assets. One is apt to conclude not. Nonetheless, were such a firm to exist, they would surely today be awash in revenues resulting from countless suits filed on […]
A lot of people will send Christmas cards to the military, and if they don’t know anyone, they will send it to “Any soldier” (or sailor). However, some facilities are overwhelmed by the process and are unable to deliver the cards. Strategy Page explains: the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where most wounded soldiers are […]
Vice President Cheney warned in an interview with The Politico that a premature withdrawal from Iraq would invite “further attacks†against the United States and said he has been surprised by the weakness of the Democratic Congress. The funny part of the interview is when he taunts the Democratic leadership. He talked about Democratic Reps. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This is a story that was published last February in a Florida paper, and then slowly spread over the internet. I saw it today for the first time, and as Thanksgiving come around, it is one that warms the heart. It started when families of those killed in Afghanistan or Iraq and buried in Arlington […]
Last week, it was CBS jiggling the numbers to bash the war in Iraq by stating Veterans had a suicide rate of 18, much higher than the civilian population’s rate of 11 (ignoring that it was only slightly higher than the suicide rate for men, which was 17, and a heck of a lot lower […]
Yesterday’s Government Oversight and Reform Committee hearing revealed that the State Department Inspector General, Howard “Cookie†Krongard, is likely just another dirty Bush Administration guy. One of the two most dramatic revelations of the day was that Howard “Cookie†Krongard’s brother, Alvin “Buzzy†Krongard, is currently serving on Blackwater’s advisory board. The obvious conflict of […]
On today’s Lunch, braniacs are divided, Clinton undoes Clinton, and Tancredo scares the bejeezus out of people watching his ads. and much more. Watch now!
In an op-ed published by The New York Times, former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto (1988 to 1990; 1993 to 1996) and head of the Pakistan People’s Party, writes: Pakistan is a military dictatorship. Last Saturday, Gen. Pervez Musharraf removed all pretense of a transition to democracy by conducting what was in effect yet another […]
Press Release from Churchill’s Parrot blog FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE      Contact: churchillsparrot@gmail.com November 9, 2007. Washington D.C. – In an attempt to bolster flagging approval ratings amongst their constituents, Democratic strategists approached the producers of MTV’s hit program Jackass on Friday to request recording a special episode of the program. According to sources, House Speaker Nancy […]
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 […]
On today’s Tuesday Snack, Will takes a look at the presidential candidates, speed-dating style… Don’t miss it!
One of the problems of “hate speech” laws is that they make being impolite or obnoxious a federal crime. On the other hand, there is a mild difference between a drunk using the “n” word or using a vulgar name for a minority group, something which needs to be met with the demands for an […]
The impending Turkish march into northern Iraq/Kurdistan seems to be getting everybody nervous – in Berlin of all places. “Emotional unrest†is growing between the city’s two favorite laugh-a-minute ethnic groups and came to a boil over the weekend when violence broke out between nationalist Turks and Kurdish rebels in Kreuzberg. The losers of the first […]
From CHURCHILL’S PARROT blog. Reflecting upon the events of Islamo-Fascist Awareness Week, we felt compelled to once again examine the alleged source of all the chanting, frothing, eye-bulging, beheading, suicide-bomb vest-donning, IED-planting, plane-crashing, WMD-seeking passion that is Islamania: the existence of Israel. At a recent Al Quds Day Celebration (October 5 if you missed it), the […]
News detailing Iranian transgressions, a day after sanctions were leveled against the Quds Force and other components of the Revolutionary Guards. This diplomatic move could just prevent a war with Iran. More on the offending behavior from CNN: The Quds Force, the elite unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, provides “lethal support” to the […]
Websites supporting al-Qaida have rained down insults and invective on Al-Jazeera, many times a dependable source for the distribution of their viewpoint. Thousands of insults have been posted blasting the TV station, which centers around providing news with a pan-Arab point of view. Al-Qaida sympathizers have unleashed a torrent of anger against Al-Jazeera television, accusing […]
Into the kerfluffle about TNR’s editor Foer coverup and the stories of Pvt Beauchamp that dissed his fellow soldiers as immature morons or worse, comes a voice of maturity. Even by September, Beauchamp wanted to put the essays behind him, and refrained from defending them as true reports (i.e. rather than satirical fiction). At this […]
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 […]
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 […]
A new study released by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) calculated that the total cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could be as high as $2.4 trillion by 2017 depending on how many troops are still involved in operations in each country.
Heavier guns and sturdier trucks would not have saved a team of Blackwater USA guards brutally killed in March 2004 after being lured by corrupt Iraqi forces into a well-planned ambush, the embattled private security contractor contends in a report to Congress. This conclusion sharply contradicts the findings of a congressional investigation led by House […]
Today’s pork report centers on the porcine efforts of Representative David Wu, Democrat from Oregon, who wrung out of the Congressional budget a $2 million earmark for T-Shirts that were supposed to go to the U.S. Marines. Of course, Wu forgot to notice that the very shirts he had surreptitiously appropriated Federal money for were […]
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 […]
Once again, the fascist left tries to quash free speech on one of our oppressive University campuses. Here is a great report on it from some folks who banded together to record the event on video and photographs. Nonie Darwish at Berkeley during Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week” is a nationwide series of lectures […]
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: Â The UN approved the coalition’s role in May 2003, and the mandate has […]
If this is how the memory of heroes gets treated in the U.S. today, then I wouldn’t blame any U.S. soldier if they would stop caring about their own country — not that any soldier has done so. I reported several months ago that a bunch of ignorant, ingrates in Colorado were trying to stop […]
Earlier today, President Bush requested an additional $46 billion dollars in supplementary spending for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. However Democratic Congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are having an absolute field day with the idea that Bush won’t fund more health care for poor children, but he will spends a couple of hundred billion dollars per year on war.
Rarely has a man made more of a fool of himself, than has Lou Dobbs with most of his recent post on his webpage on CNN.com. Rarely does one catch such a glimpse of self-importance, arrogance and assumptions of omniscience. It is so bad that Dobbs imagines himself enough of a soothsayer, enough of a […]
The folks over at FreeRepublic have reported that at one of their pro-troops vigils in front of Walter Reed Army Hospital, a union member told them that he was ordered by his union to attend the nearby anti-war protest. WASHINGTON, DC, September 28, 2007— The DC Chapter has suspected all along that the dwindling handful […]
In another swipe at the US Military, the Daily Isthmus, a paper from Madison, Wisconsin, published a short piece called, “Army Aims at Schoolkids,†in which the paper quotes an anti-military activist as saying that the ad banners for the U.S. Army posted in Madison’s High Schools is “extremely inappropriate.†Of course, we should expect […]
There is nothing that so cries out for justice as the forgotten who are slaughtered and whose deaths are left in thunderous silence of receding history. The pain for families only barely eases with the passing of decades or even centuries. This last 150 years has seen mind-twisting inhumanity. The Holocaust weighs on us with […]
With all the problems America is facing right now in the Middle East, friends are hard to come by. So why then has a Democratically controlled Congress decided now is the time to pass a resolution condemning the massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire 90 years ago? It would actually be funny if the […]
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, […]
More than 60 years ago, Polish-Jewish scholar Ralph Lemkin coined the term “genocide” precisely to describe the scale and brutality of the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Christian Armenians by the Ottoman Turks. The assertions Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates made arguing against Congress passing HR 106/SR 106, which calls […]
In his NCR blog post, John Allen has an essay that asks a theoretical question: Would you justify torture if it would save the Pope? It isn’t a theoretical question, because back in the 1990’s, an apartment fire and some smart firemen who noticed something wrong led police to a terrorist cell that planned to […]
There’s a lot of political buzz about General Sanchez’ speech, but luckily, thanks to the internet, Powerline actually has a link to the speech HERE. Alas, most of the speech is not being reported, and even good news papers. I read the WAPO report of the speech, but they played down a lot of the […]
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 […]
The former commander of coalition forces in Iraq General Ricardo Sanchez offered a damming assessment of the war, Remarking American political leaders are responsible for the loss of American lives on the battlefield owing to a “lust for power.” Sanchez bluntly stated there is No concerted effort in U.S. to devise a strategy to win the war in Iraq. the recently retired three star […]
On Today’s Lunch, Rob and Will cover the usual Friday 10-in-3, including Chris Dodd’s trip to the ballpark, Fred Thompson’s paychecks, Mitt Romney’s rocky trip to the Rockies, and Al Gore’s upcoming smash-hit single. Watch now!
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards marked the fifth anniversary of the Congressional vote to give President Bush the authorization to use force in Iraq by laying into Democratic frontrunner Sen. Hillary Clinton.
A Press Release from Churchill’s Parrot FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE      Contact: churchillsparrot@gmail.com October 10, 2007- London, England. A ground-breaking study funded by the Churchill’s Parrot Foundation released findings today indicating that America’s Democratic Party actually died sometime between the assassination of JFK and the end of the Johnson Administration. “What we have now in the DNC […]
This is what Karma is all about. Nancy Pelosi and her liberal cabal shamelessly stoked the passions of the crazy anti-war hippie crowd in order to win the majority in Congress. Now that they’re in the majority they must suffer the consequences. The Democratic “base” is now the most irrational and irritating people our country […]
It was touted as a major massacre, where innocent civilians were killed in cold blood by trigger happy soldiers. The “massacre” was widely publicized, with news reports and pictures inflaming the public. Indeed, the news reports and pictures were deliberately manipulated by some as a way to influence public opinion against the regime that the […]
In this special “Brunch” report, Rob covers the importance of small defections and local endorsements for Biden and Richardson. Watch now!
And yet another flashback of a phony Democrat soldier. Here is World Net Daily’s exploration of the lie Al Gore told about his “gassed Uncle in WWI” during his doomed run for president in 2000… turns out Gore didn’t HAVE any family that served in WWI. Oct. 6, 2000: When Vice President Al Gore claimed, […]
Ina little blast from Clinton’s past it’s an avalanche of Democrats and their supporters who are turning out to be liars about their military service, lately. We are reminded of the late M. Larry Lawrence, a long time Bill Clinton donor who was such a heavy contributor that Clinton paid him off with the ambassadorship […]
Rush Limbaugh has done it again. He’s driven the left mad. The lies about Limbaugh that Democrat Party House members are promulgating have rekindled talk of the dreaded Fairness Doctrine. And in a piece on the brewing battle between the anti-free speech Democrats and conservative talk radio supporters in the House of Representatives, the Washington […]
We are having a struggle in this country about what lesson we should have learned from The Greatest Generation. As millions of us have learned while watching Ken Burn’s The War, Americans came together in WWII and collectively sacrificed to be victorious. In the Bush administration’s view, we were willing to sacrifice because Americans didn’t […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 10/2/07 – Washington D.C. Due to a virtually unprecedented influx of exceptional nominees, the Churchill’s Parrot Useful Idiot Hall of Fame has announced plans for a massive expansion of its facilities. A number of exciting new exhibits are in the works, all bringing to life with vivid clarity and realism the jaw-dropping […]
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 […]
Seymour Hirsch, the “presumably most unpopular disclosure journalist†the White House can possibly imagine, has exclusively disclosed to Germany that 1) George W. Bush believes in God and that 2) he believes he is doing said God’s Will. I mean, who would have thought that? These shocking revelations come on the heels of other brand […]
And HERE is the reason why having Iran’s president Ahmadinejad speaking at an American University was a win-win for the bad guys. The “Kayhan,” the official Iranian news agency, had joyous headlines of Ahmadinejad’s wonderful and successful trip to America. “Shock in New York, Iran’s Logic Glares†Strong, scientific and accurate answers of the President […]
Despite what many current and retired veterans charge is a transparent political attempt by the Bush administration to appease and pettifog on behalf of a failing Iraq governing authority in prosecuting its own soldiers for deaths that occur during the fog of battle. U.S. Army sniper Spec. Jorge G. Sandoval was acquitted of murder charges related to […]
The far-left is buzzing about the newly revealed transcripts of a secret meeting President Bush held with former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Aznar in 2003. They met at President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, TX to discuss the lead up to the Iraq war. The interesting thing to note is that the conversation between the two […]
This AP report is a perfect example of how the western media hasn’t the temerity to call things like they are, a perfect example of how it soft-sells the truth for fear of violating those vaunted codes of politically correct conduct — and why we could lose this war with a radical Islam that isn’t […]
In the run up to the 2006 midterms, all the media talking heads and political pundits were talking about how the GOP was losing because the country was “sick of the war” and there was a wide spread assumption that large scale protests were proof that the anti-war lot had won the debate for American’s […]
Columbia University president Lee Bollinger exercised his free speech rights by giving guest lecturer Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a good tongue lashing. It is doubtful his words swayed the Iranian despot – “OK, OK, the Holocaust happened, and I will dismantle my nuclear program just as soon as I get back home!†– but with his tough […]
From Churchill’s Parrot blog.  Churchill’s Parrot (CP): President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, we meet again. Ahmadinejad (A): We’ve met before? CP: I interviewed you last February. Don’t you recall? Or are you often doing interviews with birds? A: I don’t seem to …wait a minute…YOU! I vowed I would never… CP: Oh put a lid on […]
Today’s Lunch menu features an NRA sandwich of McCain and Giuliani, a roast prepared by Chris Dodd, and a look at several candidates who want you to help pay their tabs. To get caught up with the top political news in just a few minutes, watch now!
Jesse Mac Beth, a self proclaimed war hero who had his fifteen minutes of fame and became the darling of the left by claiming to have murdered Iraqi civilians, has been sentenced to five months in jail for his deception. According to the ABC news story: “He was in the Army for 40 days before […]
This particular AP report is an interesting study in how the AP subtly backs the Democrats in their efforts to undermine the war effort and how they present the GOP as somehow lacking all support or being merely a blocking force in Congress instead of actually representing their constituent’s wishes. In the AP’s stylebook, Republican […]
On Thursday, Senate Republicans successfully staged a filibuster against legislation sponsored by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). The Feingold-Reid amendment would have required President Bush to begin redeploying the troops out of Iraq within 90 days of its passage. It would have also required that a complete withdrawal of forces out of Iraq be finished by June 30, 2008.
Goodness gracious, Michael Kinsley, vaunted leftist, upright “journalist,” salt of the earth, is supporting a group that would rather call names and stir hatred for our troops than support a general that the entire U.S. Senate voted unanimously for only a few months ago. The founding editor of Slate online magazine, Microsoft’s “serious” news and […]
By all accounts, September 19’s much ballyhooed Talk Like a Pirate Day was an overwhelming success! Humans the world over adopted the attire and argot of murderous marauding malcontents for absolutely no reason whatsoever other than that someone somewhere – Hollywood publicists? – thought it a capital idea. Always one for a party, I submit that […]
Early on Wednesday evening, the Senate once again voted down the Webb amendment, which would have guaranteed that when a soldier’s time in Iraq or Afghanistan ends, they would receive an amount of time at home that is equal to the time they spent in the battlefield.
Interesting New York Times article: “In a survey conducted Aug. 17-24 for ABC News, the BBC and NHK, the Japanese broadcaster, among a random national sample of 2,212 Iraqis, 72 percent in Anbar expressed no confidence whatsoever in United States forces. Seventy-six percent said the United States should withdraw now — up from 49 percent […]
It was bad enough watching Sally Field have a senior moment and lose her train of thought (video link) midway through her speech accepting an Emmy for lead actress in a drama series (“Brothers and Sisters”), but when she finally remembered what she wanted to say – “And, let’s face it, if the mothers ruled […]
 The respected former federal reserve chairman and Goldwater conservative lambasted both republicans and George W. Bush in his new memoir. The man most credit for helping to maintain the prosperity of the U.S economy through ups and downs by application of responsible fiscal discipline expressed his opinion on the financial stewardship of both the republican congress and the President. While the neoconservatives will doubtless pause from swilling the kool […]
For Lunch today, Iowa democrats serve up fried steak a la Tom Harkin, McCain gets pressed for a little straight talk, Giuliani tries to blend in (again) on race day, and we ponder the claims of Hillary’s healthcare critics. Watch now!
This USA Today story about an AP report should be called headline abuse instead of “detainee abuse” because if one were to just read the headline and move on, you’d get the wrong impression about what the story really reveals. You’d obviously read USA Today’s headline, “Guantanamo detainees tell of abuses,” and assume the story […]
It sounds like a joke, but the US Army is developing a Humvee made of foam and balsawood. It sounds like a joke but it’s actually about using modern materials to stop bullets/shrapnel and using foam to cushion blasts from IED’s. (roadside bombs). Gizmodo has a photo and reports: the Army has battled with how […]
Well, the dog and pony show is over – the one involving General David Petraeus, our senior commander in Iraq; Ryan Crocker, our ambassador to Iraq; President Bush; our “distinguished” politicians on Capitol Hill; and a disgraceful performance by MoveOn, a cash cow for Democratic Party candidates. Unfortunately, what we all waited for with bated […]
One often hears that government schools in totalitarian nations brainwash their children to love the government. People in free nations decry that as oppressing the free will of innocent children, and rightly so. In American schools, however, just the opposite is true as with the case of an anti-American teacher in a public school in […]
The British journal Lancet, will be or has published the latest death count of Iraq, finding a survey of households has shown fifty percent of households in Baghdad have lost at least one family member, and that correlating their numbers the report says that one million civilian casualties have occured in Iraq since the US […]
President Bush used his radio address this week to once again make the case that progress is being made in Iraq, and that U.S. troops should remain there.
This week’s Democratic radio response to President Bush’s radio address was given by the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA). The topic of the response was President Bush’s Iraq war policy.
George W. Bush it is said dislikes oval office addresses to the Nation, He is more comfortable with town hall debate formats where he can walk the stage and interact with participants. Still He looked and sounded very Presidential while discussing General Petraeus’s report on Iraq. The respected General was in town to sell a war and his boss played […]
From Churchill’s Parrot blog. In the history of warfare, the victory of will over might is not at all uncommon. Thrilling tales of battles in which vastly outnumbered and out-gunned troops fought heroically against all odds to emerge victorious enchant history books of every culture; at one time even our own. An ever-diminishing few of […]
With almost 15 years under its belt, the Cracker series has purportedly reached it’s final episode with this new outing. Featuring Robbie Coltrane (best known as Hagrid from the Harry Potter films) in his most prolific role as psychologist Dr. Eddie Fitzgerald, better known as “Fitz”, this edgy cop drama has been entertaining audiences for over a […]
During a speech in Clinton, Iowa, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) laid out his plan to withdraw the troops from Iraq. What some Democrats might find disappointing is that Obama called for a careful and strategic withdrawal that would leave some troops in the country.
Senators Harry Reid (D-NV), Jack Reed (D-RI), and Carl Levin (D-MI) held a press conference today to discuss the Senate testimony of Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker about the progress made in Iraq. Each of the senators was very critical of the Bush strategy in Iraq.
In the video Usama bin Laden released last week, he attempts to rebut the “neocon” assertion that immediate withdrawal from Iraq will precipitate a genocidal bloodbath with a history lesson that could have been delivered at any number of college campuses in the U.S.: “[T]he morality and culture of the holocaust is your culture, not […]
Neoconservatives like General Petraeus continue to insist with enough charts, graphs and military semantics victory in Iraq is just a couple years away. The General shares the same mindset that kept us in Vietnam for years after rational individuals concluded the cause should not have been ours to begin with and was lost the day it began. […]
Not long ago, I got the chance to review a book which turned out to be one of my favorites of this entire reviewing gig thus far, Operation Supergoose. The review can be seen here. Well, I got in contact with the author to arrange an interview and this is what happened. (My questions are […]
Usama bin Laden must be following the U.S. presidential campaign so closely that he has begun channeling the talking points of several candidates, as evidenced by this transcript of his latest video: UBL: “[D]espite America being the greatest economic power and possessing the most powerful and up-to-date military arsenal as well; and despite it spending […]
President Bush used his radio address this week to talk about his brief trip to Anbar Province and to announce that he will address the nation next week about his vision for Iraq.
This is the most disgraceful episode from the Defeat-o-crats in the Senate since little Dickey Durbin called our troops Nazis. This time, instead of goose-stepping, stormtroopers, our troops have been relegated to mere failures by another Democrat Senator. This time it is Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat from New York, who said on the floor of […]
News Item: US studies Bin Laden video A new Al-Qaeda video is making the rounds, featuring the worlds most wanted cave dweller. Osama Bin Laden, in this tape, seems to have put on a few pounds, and has obviously dyed his beard. Is there a touch of vanity going on here? Makes one wonder if […]
“The Path to 9/11,” ABC’s five-hour miniseries from earlier this year, is still not out on DVD and now the film’s screenwriter is claiming that ABC is blocking the release of the DVD to save Hillary and Bill Clinton the embarrassment they suffered when the show originally aired on TV. Why would ABC do this? […]
This one makes you want to say, “Captain Kirk to the Starship AP. Beam us up, there’s no intelligent life in the AP News Room.” on August 29th, the AP published a story scolding the U.S. Military for refusing to use a non-lethal “ray gun” to control crowds in Iraq and they quote a few […]
General Petraeus’ coming testimony before Congress regarding the status of military operations in Iraq has inspired the Lefties to feats of classless jackassery beyond which anyone believed them capable. (Well, on second thought, it’s quite believable.) The group A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism) has planned a “Die-In†for September 15 in […]
A new General Accountability Office report sent Congress today concluded that the Iraqi government has failed to meet 11 of the 18 benchmarks established by Congress in conjunction with the authorization of President Bush’s troop surge in January. The report concluded that the Iraqi government has fully met only three of the legislative, security, and economic benchmarks. The GAO concluded that four other benchmarks have been partially met, and the rest had not been met.
Adding to our world-wide web of worries: Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran — not to mention North Korea; China has now added to our already large pile of China-related concerns. It’s not bad enough that China’s manufacturing industry is out of control and trying to poison our children with toxic toys (and who knows what else […]
Drudge had several links about the new DePalma film that DePalma admits was made to smear the US Troops and change the minds of the public on the war in Iraq. Guess DePalma wasn’t aware the soldiers involved went to jail, and that rape is not US policy, unlike the 1.5 million women raped by […]
The so-called “withdrawal†of British Troops from their last post inside Basra to the Basra Air Station in the early hours of this morning came as no surprise to me. But it is an embarrassing and shameful end to Britain’s military support of civilisation’s war against terror. I wonder what deals have been done by […]
The fatal flaw in all Lefty “thinking†regarding the War on Terror – Iraq in particular – is the failure to appreciate the true nature and degree of the threat faced. Generally speaking, this flawed logic has characterized the three Lefty schools of thought on the matter:  * The Michael Moore school of thought […]
The former chief of general staff Mike Jackson waited till after he retired and is hawking a book to speak out against the Bush administrations post Iraq invasion policy. Gosh Mike perhaps some of the courageous soldiers who died in vain would have appreciated your observations at a time when it might have been done some good. The post evangelical […]
I was disappointed to read that Hollywood director Brian De Palma’s latest work is a propaganda piece, highlighting the atrocities that a handful of U.S. soldiers committed in the Iraqi town of Mahmudiyah. It’s ironic that someone like De Palma who is best known for directing ‘Scarface’ and ‘The Untouchables’ would be an anti-war liberal, […]
Personally, I am tired of the broken record that uses Viet Nam as an example. One side insists that one cannot fight insurgents and the other side insists that the only alternative to American power is a murderous civil war Actually, both sides ignores history. You see, several other major communist insurgencies in South East […]
The movie “A Cry in the Dark”, is about how a feeding frenzy by a cynical press led to the conviction of Lindy Chamberlain for the death of her child…until the child’s blood stained clothing was found in a dingo’s den and her conviction overturned. The Australian name for the film is “Evil Angels”, which […]
With almost weekly revelation’s of Scandal, corruption and incompetence. While mired in a civil war that more then two thirds of the American people want over yesterday, Which a majority are beginning to feel may have been the result of intelligence manipulated to the point of out right deception at the highest level of the administration. The party may be over […]
This week’s Democratic response to President Bush’s weekly radio address was delivered by former U.S. Senator Max Cleland. Cleland spent the address refuting the comparison Bush made this week between Iraq and Vietnam. In a speech at the VFW National Convention, the president used Vietnam as an example of why U.S. troops should stay in Iraq.
In his weekly radio address today, President Bush once again framed the war in Iraq as a battle against al-Qaeda and urged the American people to give his troop surge strategy more time to be successful.
Vocal anti-war activists accuse the administration of committing U.S Forces to a never ending war in Iraq. The President insists in public he will not set a time line for withdrawal. Military planners report that based on present deployment levels and rotation, U.S. forces can continue operational effectiveness for nine to thirteen months. To understand how dire and ominous loss of operational […]
The latest National Intelligence Estimate on the situation Iraq was released today, and it does not paint a pretty picture for the present or immediate future in that country.
U.S. troops in Iraq will receive at least 1,000 fewer special armored vehicles than expected this year due to the amount of time needed for shipment, the Pentagon announced. It appears that “Supporting The Troops†is nothing more than just rhetoric since the best way to support them would be to keep them from being […]
After Iraqi Kurds reportedly shot down an Iranian helicopter on Aug. 20th, Iran has responded by dropping leaflets on the Kurdish villages along the Iran/Iraq border. The leaflets warn of military strikes by the Islamic Republic of Iran and specifically state, “The authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran will work on cleansing this area,†[…]
Michael A. Fletcher of the Washington Post has a little snippet of a story so full of hyperbole about how wonderful and “crystallizing” so-called “Peace Mom” Cindy Sheehan has been for the country that unintentional comedy is the result — that or it raises a collective groan for its slobbering sycophancy. He so outlandishly exaggerates […]
Clinton said about the troop surge, “its working. We’re just years too late in changing our tactics. We can’t ever let that happen again. We can’t be fighting the last war. We have to keep preparing to fight the new war.†Clinton’s statement that the troop surge is working brought about a critical response from John Edwards.
In a speech given earlier today President Bush gave his own unique interpretation of U.S. history to drum up support for the war in Iraq. He also used the example of Japan to point to what he thinks Iraq can become.
WWW.CHURCHILLSPARROT.COM “What would Winston do?â€FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: churchillsparrot@gmail.com Contact:August 20, 2007 – Washington D.C. Another disturbing piece of evidence came to light this past Friday adding to speculations that at least half the legislative branch of the United States government is completely illiterate. This latest incident involved Wisconsin Senator Herb Kohl and his stunningly […]
First published @ Cjunk The old saying, “what goes around, comes around“, may be closer to the truth than most would admit, as is the saying “pride cometh before the fallâ€. So it is with British arrogance. The UK press and military seldom waste time in telling the world how UK methods of doing things […]
Today on The Lunch, Rob flies solo and serves up tasty morsels from a brothel in Nevada, Ground Zero in New York, vigilantes on the southern border, Hillary observers on Mars, and much more. For the latest election news in just a few minutes’ time, come by for lunch with us. Watch now!
Since the opening of the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detainee facility in 2002, the Bush Administration has been under constant pressure to close the facility down. The existence of this facility is looked upon as an embarrassment to “freedom,†“liberty†and western ethics by its detractors and has served as a focal point of the anti-war […]
The publishers of GraniteGrok – go to their site to learn the origin of the name – were good enough to provide a welcome, detailed account of Senator McCain’s town meeting in Wolfesboro, NH on Friday night, while all of his rivals but Rudy were stumping in Ames, Iowa. Here are selected excerpts; The Tower […]
With his New York Times blog post “If You Were a Terrorist, How Would You Attackâ€, freakonomist Steven D. Levitt whimsically speculates upon new and exciting ways to terrorize and kill innocent Americans. He then invites readers to do the same.      “Consider that posting them could be a form of public service,” encourages Levitt. Right then. […]
By John Donovan of of RoyalDutchShellPlc.com Today, The Washington Post published a major news story reporting that: –  “The United States has decided to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, the country’s 125,000-strong elite military branch, as a ‘specially designated global terrorist,’ according to U.S. officials, a move that allows Washington to target the group’s business […]
On the menu for today’s Lunch: Hillary hits Bush in her first campaign ad, Rove exits stage right, Rudy and Romney talk tough on immigration, and one of the GOP herd decides he’s had enough. Watch now!
I have been watching with interest the candidacy of Libertarian Ron Paul. Like many, I’ve been wondering what the heck is is doing in this race in the first place. Let’s face it, even in the GOP field of candidates he doesn’t fit in well. Naturally, he is a whipping boy for the GOP establishment… […]
How many times do we have to see the MSM reporting on a “massacre of Iraqi civilians” that turns out to be a false story planted by our enemies before we can definitively say that the MSM is purposefully aiding and abetting the terrorists? How ever many that may be, the tally is certainly on […]
My Dear Messer’s bin-Laden, Al-Zawahari, Ahmadinejad, Khamenei, al-Assad, al-Sadr, et-al; I believe it is safe to say, we’ve had our differences. You don’t like our government, our economics, our culture, our religions, our philosophies, our history, our military, our taste in women’s clothing, our presence on earth; and we’re not particularly fond of your techniques […]
My 21-year-old son, staggered by thousands of dollars in student loan debt, in combination with struggling to stay in college due to his ADHD, recently told me he was giving serious thought to joining the military. This scared me to death. Iraq. Roadside bombs. Catastrophic brain injuries. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Loss of limb, loss […]
Many on the Left try to disparage any action Bush has taken by citing his poll numbers, especially regarding the war in Iraq. If the public doesn’t like it, it shouldn’t be done, or so goes the argument. Well, as I’ve said many times before, I hate polls, but if you want to live by […]
Well, that was fun; sort of what I imagine a fox-hunt to be, with a pack of hounds and a merry collection of red-coated hunters on swift steeds. The successful conclusion of the milblogosphere kerfuffle-du-jour, the beat-down of aspiring fabulist Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp was just like one of those exhilarating hunts beloved by viewers […]
At the Black Hat computer Hacker’s conference held in Las Vegas last week, Neal Krawetz of “Hacker Factor” showed how easily the MSM has been tricked into believing the fake images that al Qaeda has offered to further their propaganda. Krawetz specifically referred to two images, one the July 27, 2006 image of al Qaeda […]
Rob and Will are dining with the GOP today for this report on their debate in Iowa. Among the top stories, Romney gets fed up, Tancredo targets Mecca, and Huckabee gains a few friends. Meanwhile Obama continues to draw fire. Watch now!
The subprime mortgage mess, elite “do as I say” social engineering, and other stories of note… By Jefferson Flanders With a tip of the ballcap to legendary New York newspaperman Jimmy Cannon, nobody asked me, but… EXHIBIT “A” FOR HOW GREED MAKES RATIONAL PEOPLE DO IRRATIONAL THINGS: the subprime mortgage mess. It has become a […]
While speaking in Des Moines, Iowa, Republican presidential candidate Sen. Sam Brownback outlined his idea of a diplomatic surge for Iraq that would try to bring national stability by creating a partition of the three major ethnic groups in Iraq, with Baghdad serving as the center for the federal government.
Earlier today, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) laid out his strategy to fight terrorism in an address at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Once again, and engaging in perfect Soviet styled historical revisionism, our glorious MSM presents the “truth” of how failed Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was really the one who “helped” the U.S. win the Cold War. AP claims Gorby brought about the fall of the Soviet Union but this “ushered in an era of U.S. imperialism,” […]
With great fanfare, CNN is announcing the broadcast over three nights in August of a “Worldwide TV event” hosted by Christiane Amanpour titled “God’s Warriors.” But some fear that these three nights, each night focusing on a particular religion, will equate Christian political activists in America (the so-called “Christian Right”) to Muslim suicide bombers and […]
One of the chief reasons that Republicans in general and Conservatives in particular were always wary of John “the maverick” McCain is the slobbering love that the MSM so constantly lavished upon him. The MSM is so distrusted that their love for McCain relayed to the country that there must be something wrong with him. […]
In an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday Newt Gingrich talked about why he thinks the Democrats are so eager to pull the troops out of Iraq.
The New York Daily News perpetrated an interesting, yet subtly misleading headline about president Bush’s Charleston, South Carolina speech on Al Qaeda in Iraq today in theirs titled “W still ties Iraq, 9/11.” Following the left’s playbook of claiming Bush has illicitly linked Saddam’s Iraq to 9/11 their headline made it seem as if Bush, […]
In a major foreign policy address to the World Affairs Council of New Hampshire, Democratic presidential candidate Gov. Bill Richardson (D-NM) first blasted the Bush administration for their failures in dealing with al-Qaeda, and then he laid out his own plan for al-Qaeda.
Outrageously, Newsweek has published a so-called “special report” in which Muslim Americans are called “one of this country’s greatest strengths,” but, Newsweek worries, that they are now ” vulnerable as never before.” Yes, America, as far as Newsweek is concerned it is YOU, not Islam, that is the problem and therein lies the main reason […]
Honor killings rampant in Iraq by Nastya Petrovitch Islamic extremism has been on the rise since the United States’ invasion of Iraq. One telling example is the story of, a 17-year-old girl in Iraq who was dragged, from a house where she was staying, by nine men, of which many were her relatives and stoned […]
Last year, a war book came out with a unique premise. Instead of including reflections of a war that has passed, current soldiers were asked to send in stories, essays, poems, journal excerpts, and other writings that they have written while this war is in progress. These writings first started showing up in national magazines […]
A bill sponsored by Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) was passed by the House of Representatives today that would make it the official policy of the United States not to establish permanent military bases in Iraq, and not exercise economic control over Iraq’s oil resources.
Today while speaking at the Charleston Air Force Base in Charleston, South Carolina President Bush once again tried to rally support for the Iraq war by claiming that U.S. is fighting al-Qaeda for control of Iraq.
While appearing on Meet The Press this morning, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) discussed a range of topics including the Iraq war, President Bush, and censure.
“A man calumniated is doubly injured – first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it. Herodotus TNR’s editor Foer is under attack by Milbloggers and others for an article that paints soldiers in Iraq as callus monsters who should be despised by all good people. Foer defends himself from […]
Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) delivered the Democratic response to President Bush’s weekly radio address this week. Levin first pointed out that Senate Republicans again blocked a vote on an amendment to withdraw the troops from Iraq.
This week President Bush used his radio address to discuss al-Qaeda and the release of the National Intelligence Estimate on the Terrorist Threat to the U.S. Homeland. After thanking the troops for their service, the president said, “The Director of National Intelligence released a summary of an important document called the National Intelligence Estimate on the Terrorist Threat to the U.S. Homeland.”
There is a minor scandal brewing about an article in the New Republic: Shock Troops. Obviously I haven’t read it (It requires a subscription, and I have a very limited budget). But essentially it is a “Jarhead” type smear of American troops in Iraq as crass ignoramuses. Personally, I agree with Powerline who notes that […]
Today Senate Republicans blocked a final vote on an amendment that would have mandated the start of a withdrawal of troops from Iraq within 120 days. The final vote on the motion to cut off debate on the Levin-Reed amendment was 52-47.
The recent stories on the National Intelligence Estimate report, make an inference to the Al-Qaida group using its contacts in Iraq to mount an attack in the United States. The parts of the report, available for reading, make reference to increased threats, from within “radicalized” groups, and indicates that the United States still faces threats, but also points to the […]
Before I tell you how the Dallas Morning News is breathlessly reporting that Nobel laureate Betty Williams called for the death of President Bush at the “International Women’s Peace Conference” in Dallas on the 11th, I must remind you all that peace activists on the left are far more “civilized”, “Humane”, “tolerant”, and “intelligent” than […]
The latest declassified National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) was released today. The NIE contains the unified opinion of all the nation’s intelligence gathering agencies about the domestic terror threat level and the status of organizations that could pose a threat through terrorism to the United States.
In his radio address this week, President Bush used the initial progress report to defend his Iraq strategy.
Democratic presidential contenders, Sen. Barack Obama, John Edwards, Bill Richardson, Joe Biden and Chris Dodd all released statements about the benchmark progress report that the White House released today. Here is a round up of what they had to say.
At a press conference this morning, President Bush brushed aside criticism from Republican senators, and the idea that the American people want a change in policy in Iraq.
An amendment proposed by Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) that would have required that troops serving in Iraq be given leave time equal to the number of days they served in combat was blocked today by Senate Republicans.
As of today, you can add Sen. Olympia Snowe’s (R-ME) name to the growing list of Republican Senators who are calling for a change in course in Iraq. Sen. Snowe made her support known when she added her name as a co-sponsor along with fellow Republican Gordon Smith (R-OR) on the bill proposed by Democrat Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI).
While the Democrats work on the Department of Defense’s $649 billion spending bill for next year, they are also expected to debate amendments which would withdraw the troops from Iraq.
There are two kinds of war, when you get right down to it, and the USA has had a little of both. First is the idealistic kind, evinced in that of the American Revolution and WWII, which were both fights to free a continent from despotism. Even Korea and Vietnam can be fitted into the […]
In America when there are a group of bullies in a middle school, do we decide it is best to just blow up parts of the school where the bullies might be, accept the casualties along the way and move onto the next school? If you dissect a microcosm scenario of terrorists as bullies, our […]
A report released by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service found that the troop surge in Iraq has boosted the monthly cost of the war there to $10 billion. Two billion dollars a month is also being spent in Afghanistan.
The problem with the United States is that we have no stomach for any type of prolonged conflict. That is the one weakness that is becoming quite clear to our enemies around the world. It’s becoming increasingly obvious that the gutless congress amid its howling for withdrawal is close to forcing the President to fold […]
Saddam was responsible for 9-11…left wing professors were responsible for 9-11…the U.S. is protecting the infant Iraqi democracy…the fall of Iraq is the fall of western civilization…apres Bush le deluge….Libby’s sentence was excessive…Iran’s leadership are the new Hitler….Do any of the writers of this sophomoric nonsense actually believe it? These people are educated, articulate, some […]
Britain’s national Daily Mail has front page headlines “Al Qaeda fanatics working in Police†in today’s issue. This comes on top of revelations earlier this week that Al Qaeda has infiltrated the Government’s National Health Service, and The Mail claims that it has information that other security services and Government departments have been or are […]
On Thursday, Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) became the latest high ranking Republican senator to break with the Bush administration and call for a change in strategy in Iraq.
The Grant Of Executive Clemency that was given to Lewis Libby, surprised some today, predicting a pardon, and others predicting that the administration would steer clear of the issue. The fact that Libby’s prison term was commuted, and the rest of the sentence (fine, supervised release) was left in tact, lends some insight into how […]
A special unit of Iran’s Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution called the Quds Force has been cited as a major contributing factor to the continued violence in Iraq. It has been known for some time that the Quds have been operating within Iraq, but recent intelligence reports have now answered the lingering […]
In the last few years, people have been undergoing laser eye surgery to correct their impaired visions, making them able to see in 20/20 vision without the use of glasses or contacts. Recently, an Army eye clinic has offered the usually costly procedure free to soldiers most likely to go to fight in Iraq. The […]
-Reuters admits they were taken in by false beheaded Iraqis story but refuses to accept responsibility for their error Remember when you were a kid and got caught telling a lie, but your excuse was that a pal “made you do it” and it was so hard to tell the truth anyway because of this […]
Right now, the main news is that Senator Lugar agrees with James Baker and others that we need to see Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia as reasonable partners who can be worked with. This sounds almost identical to what was the elites opinions in the 1960’s, that the US should stop warmongering and see Russia […]
This week President Bush used his radio address to talk about the Fourth of July, the sacrifices of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, and how well things are going in Iraq.
Have you ever been mellow? Hell no answer pulp fiction masters. Particularly the post World War 2 crew who wrote paperback originals for publishers such as Gold Medal and Lion Books. Though paperbacks got their mass market start in the late 30’s, WW2 pushed them over the hump. Our Boys picked up the paperback habit […]
Did you know that a monument to the many millions of victims who died during the Cold War as a result of communist oppression was dedicated in Washington DC on June 12th? You would be excused if you didn’t know anything about it if the coverage of the event by the MSM is any measure […]
In yet another ominous sign that the Rudy Giuliani presidential campaign is desperate to right their sinking ship, the former mayor of New York City accused former President Bill Clinton of being weak on terrorism.
Longtime Bush administration supporter Sen. Richard Luger (R-IN) gave a speech on the Senate floor yesterday in which he called for the Bush administration to change their Iraq strategy so that it meets up with U.S. interests.
The Taron James paternity fraud case is one of the most egregious examples of the abuses the child support enforcement system visits upon men. In my co-authored column Defrauded Veterans Have Mixed Emotions on Veterans Day (Daily Breeze [Los Angeles], 11/11/03), I wrote: “For Torrance photographer Taron James, a decorated veteran of Operation Northern Watch, […]
We Should be More ‘British’ Says Tory Cameron Several years ago, I wrote an article in which I urged our school systems to teach Americanism so that we could reestablish our American culture. I remember several letters scolding me for this notion, but I got far more agreeing with my main point; without our shared […]
By Our Security Affairs Correspondent Hammadi Maasina. It has now come to light that the Gambian President Yahya Jammeh is fully and deeply involved in the Casamance rebellion. It was a good thing that Jammeh himself started vomiting some of the clues in his editorial at the Daily Observer. Classified documents had already got leads […]
Though the statistic is only around 1% of military men and women, military desertions are on the rise. Some deserters cite homesickness or dissatisfaction among their motives for leaving their posts. Apparently, military life is hard. Marc Mulholland, 21 of Melbourne Beach, was recently arrested for desertion. He first went AWOL a year after enlisting […]
Back on May 20th, the NBC News Investigative Unit excitedly reported that US Armed forces and the Pentagon may be forcing our soldiers to use body armor that is not as effective as newer models being produced. In an alarming TV report called “Are U.S. soldiers wearing the best body armor?”, NBC intimated that the […]
As the recent controversy over Dragon Skin body armor begins to fade in our memories, a story of hope that was passed over in the national media caught my eye. From Bartlesville, Oklahoma, the Army Times reports, hails high school sophomore Melissa Carvell. Without the high-tech facilities available to the existing players in the body […]
General Peter Pace, steadfast (if slightly overly political) Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has now been thrown under the proverbial bus. Pace, who declined to resign, saying he did not want anyone in his command to “think –ever- that his chairman, whoever that person is, could have stayed in the battle and voluntarily […]
Well, it’s a start. The Pentagon and Department of Defense (www.defense.gov) have decided to try to eliminate the “stigma†attached to seeking counseling for trauma-related stress. The government wants to encourage soldiers suffering from Post Traumatic Stress to seek help before it becomes a disorder. Such soldiers, the government believes, may fail to seek the […]
The tone of the political debate on the war in Iraq took another turn yesterday when Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) released a statement that claimed in part that the soon to be former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Peter Pace was not as candid as he should have been about the war in Iraq.
My earlier posts: Why we’re not winning1 deals with what’s going wrong in our war against terror, and covers my credentials for writing on the subject; Why we’re not winning 2 offers solutions; Why we’re not winning 3 links the war into Africa; Why we’re not winning 4 illustrates the underlying political attitude in Britain towards the military; and […]
According to a study released by the nonpartisan Project for Excellence in Journalism, the amount of time dedicated to the three top stories of the first quarter of 2007 (Iraq, 2008 campaign, Anna Nicole Smith) each received different amounts of coverage on the three U.S. cable news networks.
How many Americans realise that wounded British soldiers are no longer being treated in the safety of a Military Hospital? All Military Hospitals here the UK have been closed as a cost saving measure. Soldiers wounded in Afghanistan, Iraq or anywhere else in the other minor wars they’re being asked to fight in by Tony Blair’s Labour Government […]
In an interview on CNN’s Late Edition, Bill Richardson told host Wolf Blitzer how he would handle the situation in Iraq.
In a wide ranging interview on NBC’s Meet the Press this morning, former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell talked about the Iraq war and the need to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
As the debate over Iraq heats up, it is striking to note that the contenders for the candidacy of the President have paid little attention to a report released in December of 2006, a report by the Iraqi Study Group on measures that the United States can take to ease the sectarian violence in Iraq […]
This week DNC Chair Howard Dean delivered the Democratic response to President Bush’s weekly radio address.
My two earlier posts, Why we’re not winning the war against terror and Why we’re not winning the war against terror, part 2 highlighted Afghanistan and Iraq, but the war is being fought on other fronts. While the western world media is focussing its attention on the battles taking place in Afghanistan and Iraq, Africa is being […]
Saying that he wanted to avoid a messy confirmation battle in Senate, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced that he will not recommend General Peter Pace for another two year term as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
On Wednesday, the Turkish military announced a “temporary security zone” across three provinces, Hakkari, Sirnak and Siirt, near the Iraqi border where they will limit land and air travel until Sept. 9. “We are not there to penalize the people of Iraq,” says Seyfi Tashan, director of the Turkish Foreign Policy Institute at Bilkent University […]
My post on this subject yesterday, Why we’re not winning the war outlines my credentials and views on the subject, and if you read it, you might assume that I do not support the war against terror being waged by the American and coalition forces in Iraq, Iran and elsewhere (notably in Africa, but that’s another […]
Everyone seems ready to say that we’re losing the war in Iraq – and that it isn’t worth fighting. Few people seem to think about why we aren’t winning. The United States of America has the most powerful armed forces in the world, and they’re supported by the British – who have some of the best special forces in the world. […]
The ten contenders for the 2008 presidential nomination gathered in Manchester, NH tonight to try and establish a solid frontrunner for the Republican nomination.
While being interviewed on Fox News Sunday, potential Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich stuck to his criticisms of the Bush administration.
I was waiting in the doctor’s office yesterday and I happened to pick up an issue of Forbes Magazine from November of ‘06. It was a little outdated, but that didn’t stop me from finding a great editorial written by Steve Forbes himself. I happen to be a strong supporter of dividing Iraq into autonomous states with […]
From what White House Press Secretary Tony Snow was telling reporters during his briefing today it seems like the White House is starting to think of the U.S. military presence in Iraq in the same way as the long term troop deployment in S. Korea.
Yesterday, Cindy Sheehan posted her resignation as the “face “of the antiwar movement on her Daily Kos blog.
Those who want a “mini lesson” on how to rebuild a civil society after years of oppression need to look at East Timor, where 200 000 people were killed since Indonesia annexed it in 1975. Finally, with the help of the UN an election was held, and people voted for independence. Alas, after the vote, […]
Memorial Day, 2007 Memorial Day always seems so much more poignant when we have our soldiers in harm’s way as we have these last several years in Afghanistan, Iraq and around the world. As we set our minds to remember the sacrifices of past American soldiers we must also think of those who now serve […]
While appearing on CBS’ Face The Nation on Sunday morning, Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) acknowledged that the GOP is starting to understand that another change in strategy will be necessary in Iraq this fall.
Afghan war veteran Elliot Anderson gave this week’s Democratic response to President Bush’s weekly radio address.
Senators and Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were forced to defend their no votes on the emergency war funding bill that passed the Senate Thursday night by a margin of 80-14. Both Democratic candidates have drawn heavy criticism from the three top GOP candidates Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, and Sen. John McCain.
By Carol Bogart  When I first became friendly with a 59-year-old Vietnam vet who told me he has PTSD, I drew a blank. “`PTSD’? What’s that?” I wondered. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, he explained. “Ohhh. THAT.” That I knew. Or so I thought. Years earlier, a psychologist told me rape victims frequently suffer from Post Traumatic […]
During a Thursday morning press conference in the Rose Garden, President Bush talked more about the reasons why the United States needs to be in Iraq. “Failure in Iraq will cause generations to suffer, in my judgment. Al Qaeda will be emboldened. They will say, yes, once again, we’ve driven the great soft America out […]
I’m an American currently living in Adana, Turkey. A while ago I walked to the local bakery to get some bread for tonight. On the way I stopped to chat with a couple of street venders that I know. Another man was there and he started trying to talk with me. He only knew about […]
The left never ceases to amaze and confound an honest man. As we have seen reported on Newsbusters, Jimmy Carter called President George W. Bush the “worst†president in history then lied about it claiming that his words were “careless or misinterpreted.†Carter was seen on the Today Show trying to get the nation to […]
The Good news: Most American Muslims are assimilated. The Bad news: A quarter of their kids think it’s okay to bomb innocent civilians “to defend Islam”… Not included: What it means. Is this merely a theoretical approval of suicide bombing when no other means work, as many Palestinians think? Or is this approval mean they […]
In a speech today at the Council on Foreign Relations, Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards criticized both the Bush Global War on Terror and the Democrats for giving in on the war funding bill.
During a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing that asked, “Is Reconstruction in Iraq Failing,†committee chairman Tom Lantos (D-CA) discussed several of the problems related to the reconstruction of Iraq.
 Several news sources (http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/22/war.funding/, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/22/AR2007052200163.html) have now apparently confirmed that Pelosi, Hoyer, Obey, and other House “leaders” have agreed to give Bush the Iraq war funding he has been demanding since February. They will now go, hat in hand, to the Republicans for support to pass the funding over the objection of the “Out of Iraq” caucus. Whether […]
Recently Nazi Holocaust files located in Bad Arolsen, have been opened to news media and other researchers. Previously, the access to these files has been restricted and utilized only for those trying to trace their relatives. The files reveal, what many people already knew. There was no great party right after the war. No joyful […]
In case there was any doubt, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson made it official. He is running for president in 2008. The Democrat made his announcement at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
In a move that was considered an eventuality by almost everyone, Congressional Democratic leadership has finally decided to give into President Bush’s demands and send him an emergency war funding bill that does not contain any extra domestic spending, or a timeline for withdrawing the troops from Iraq.
In an interview that aired on ABC’s This Week on Sunday morning, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that the House will pass an Iraq war spending bill before they leave for their Memorial Day break.
In a Friday interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, former president Jimmy Carter broke with tradition and publicly criticized current U.S. president George W. Bush.
Jihad: Holy War. This is meaning of the word Jihad as it is interpreted by most Americans and non-Muslims, and rightfully so. The events of the past few years, or even the past decade, make it easy to draw conclusions about other cultures and religions. While most Americans have heard the word jihad broadcast on […]
One of the main arguments used by those who postulate that Iraq has been lost, is that civilian and military body-counts have not subsided. The argument is compelling because of its emotional impact … anyone with an ounce of empathy feels great pain for the lost soldiers and the Iraqi civilian victims. Yet, in historic […]
In what could turn out to be a very risky political move, White House negotiators rejected the Democrats’ war funding concessions offer during a private Capitol Hill meeting. The Democrats offered to take the billions of dollars worth of domestic spending out of the bill, if President Bush would accept what amounted to a voluntary timetable to pull the troops out of Iraq.
Advertisement Are you freakishly obsessed with the daily casualty count in Iraq? Do you find yourself disappointed when a day or two goes by and no American soldiers die? Have you ever been at a cocktail party and said, “How can we be so damn jovial when George Bush is responsible for a death toll […]
In an overwhelming vote today, the Senate rejected an amendment put forward by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) that would have cut off funding for he Iraq war by March 31, 2008, and also started the withdrawal of troops from Iraq with in 120 days of the authorization of the amendment.
The second Republican primary debate took place in Columbia, SC Tuesday night and overall it was a much improved performance over the first debate at the Reagan Presidential Library in California. The theme of this second debate was the lower tier candidates jumping on Giuliani, McCain, and Romney for their lack of conservative credentials.
2008 Democratic frontrunners Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) both announced today that they will vote on Wednesday to cut off funds, and establish a troop withdrawal deadline for the Iraq war.
On Wednesday Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to float a trial balloon in the form of two votes about the funding for and withdrawal of the troops in Iraq. The proposals will be voted on as amendments to the water projects bill.
It is no wonder that jihadists everywhere imagine we can so easily be beaten when western MSM outlets are often filled with capitulators and defeatists. The Wisconsin State Journal has just such a foolish, western dupe in it’s May 10th issue in a column by Kevin J. Mack who is scolding us all that these […]
On Saturday, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards used his commencement address at New England College to call on Americans to both support the troops and end the war.
On Friday, CBS released a transcript of part of an interview Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney gave to 60 Minutes’ Mike Wallace.
David Schussler We are engaged in a struggle against those who would take away our liberty and slaughter our children given the chance. We are daily debating the morality of our leaders who have made the decision in light of the 9/11attack on the United States to defend our freedom. This decision should have been […]
Coming to America I’ve found, when in conflict, it can be helpful to consider things from the other point of view. This works best if you can, using imagination, immerse yourself in your opponent’s perspective. For example: I am a terrorist. I live in the desert and I hate America. I am well financed and […]
With a hat tip to Clayton Cramer, a not-so-hypothetical question. If 3 retired generals (out of several thousand) come out against the war, and if almost 3,000 active-duty military come out asking for full support and full funding and don’t want to retreat, are both these items newsworthy? If you said Yes to the first […]
In no time at all the White House, through Press Secretary Tony Snow, has let it be known that President Bush would veto any type of short term war funding bill such as the one House Democrats are currently proposing if it were sent to him.
A break from China news today brought on by an email from Lone Star Pundit. Yes, I personally have opposed the war in Iraq since its inception, but as a disabled veteran and the son of a fallen hero I do my best to support the men and women in harm’s way for our sake. […]
On Tuesday, House Democratic leaders briefed their membership on their new proposal for funding the war in Iraq. The Democrats new plan will fund the Iraq war through July, but after that gives Congress the option of cutting off future funding.
After a series of deadly tornadoes swept through her state last weekend, Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius said today that the war in Iraq has created gaps in the federal government’s ability to respond to natural disasters. The tornadoes caused 10 deaths, and virtually destroyed the small town of Greensburg, KS.
While appearing on Fox News Sunday, House Minority Leader Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) admitted that Congressional Republicans are getting nervous about the lack of progress in Iraq, but he did say that they should give the Bush troop surge some time to see if it works.
This week the topic of President Bush’s radio address was funding for the Iraq war.
I think the first Republican debate on the road to the 2008 election can be summed up very quickly. Iraq war handled badly, but the U.S. must stay, taxes, stem cell research, and abortion bad, but tax cuts and lower federal spending good, Osama bad, Reagan good. None of the ten candidates were very impressive, but some were better than others.
The Washington Post is tsk tsking the U.S. Army and Walter Reed Army Medical Center today for their uninviting of aging 60s’ war protester Joan Baez from appearing in a concert for wounded soldiers with John Cougar Mellencamp last Friday. In a sympathetic article the Post can’t seem to understand why the Army wouldn’t want […]
In a speech before the Associated General Contractors of America, President Bush proclaimed al-Qaeda the number one enemy in Iraq.
Statements made by former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani during the 2008 presidential campaign on issues such as Iraq, terrorism, and foreign policy have been essentially to endorse and completely embrace the Bush doctrine without providing any policy specifics of his own. While this may win over the conservative base in republican primaries, it may […]
In his veto statement Tuesday night President Bush gave two reasons why he vetoed the war funding bill. Bush said, “Here is why the bill Congress passed is unacceptable. First, the bill would mandate a rigid and artificial deadline for American troops to begin withdrawing from Iraq. That withdrawal could start as early as July […]
More proof that Mississippi Senator Trent Lott, the former Democrat and the one responsible for making all Republicans look like racists — with help from the MSM — is at it again. Lott is making noise that he would like to compromise with the Democrat Party over the safety of our troops and listen to […]
It always amazes when the MSM congeals an entire presidential administration into a form that posits that every member of that administration is the president. Like when they claim that “Bush Lied” about the faulty intelligence that led to the presentation to the UN to garner support for the action in Iraq given by then […]
At a Rose Garden news conference today, President Bush was asked how much of a voice he was willing to give Congress in Iraq war policy.
In another case of who-should-be-surprised, the Democrat Party is playing political games with the lives of our troops by tying the military budget to their political goals of forcing the president to agree to a timetable for removing the troops from Iraq. In recent months a new type of armored vehicle has been introduced to […]
News Item: Leiberman takes apart Iraq Withdrawal Proposal Once upon a time, not all that long ago, the state of Connecticut had a Senator who was a Democrat. His name was Joe Leiberman. More recently, Connecticut has a Senator who is neither a Republican or a Democrat, but an Independent, a very rare breed for […]
A federal prosecutor in Germany has refused to investigate a criminal complaint filed against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top US officials accusing them of war crimes and torture in Iraq. It appears as if the accusations filed last November do not apply to a way special and thoroughly important German law that […]
Retired General William Odom delivered the Democrats response to President Bush’s Saturday radio address. Normally, the Democratic response isn’t very interesting, but this one was.
On Friday at a joint press appearance with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, President Bush reiterated his strong stand against signing any war spending bill that includes a timeframe for withdrawal of the troops in Iraq.
A couple years ago there was a B movie where a Marine defending a US Embassy was charged with the murder of civilians, based on “local” reports and a highly edited propaganda film. . Later, the hero of the film got hold of the original tape, proving that the marine had fired in self defense, […]
On Wednesday, Sen. John McCain officially launched his campaign for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. Realistically, this week marks a relaunch of a struggling and frail campaign for the candidate who at one time looked like a solid frontrunner for the GOP nomination.
On Thursday night, the eight Democrats who want to represent their party as the nominee for president took their first collective step on this path at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, SC.
Senator Lieberman spoke to his colleagues this morning and eloquently explained why we should not withdraw from Iraq. His statement was clear and reasoned, describing the chaos that would result if U.S. troops were pulled from Iraq beginning October 1, the deadline for phased redeployment contained in the bill.In his speech, Senator Lieberman pointed out […]
To show the feeding frenzy that is the MSM — as well as the constant inaccuracy — reports abounded yesterday with rebukes to Rudy Giuliani from Democratic candidates for the 2008 Presidential election over something they all merely assumed he said at a campaign appearance. Every single paper out there quoted the stern rebukes of […]
Barbara Walters used to have a reputation as a serious journalist. That was before the bull-in-the-china-shop that is Rosie O’Donnell came bellowing into her life. Could Walters finnaly have reached her last straw with O’Donnell, though? If rumors of Rosie leaving the daytime TV talker “The View” after a blue and vulgar performance at an […]
A few sources, not the least of which is Michael Barone, are reporting that the Democrats are ignoring important Iraq briefings conducted by General David Petraeus in an apparent effort to stymie efforts in Iraq. It is well known that they are not supportive of the troops in Iraq and the president’s “surge” plan they […]
This week it is expected that Congress will send President Bush the $100 billion war funding bill. A joint House and Senate panel is set to meet on Monday to reconcile the differences between each of their respective bills, but it is expected that the troop withdrawal provision will remain in the final bill. Last […]
 David Schussler Sheryl Crownies need to wake up. Just another example of mis-use of celebrity, Sheryl Crow is stumping the country to drum up attention to global warming. Helping to create alarmist frenzy, Ms. Crow is misinforming the American youth with such statements as “the world having the most Co2 in our atmosphere in […]
This story should go in the file titled, “When are they ever going to learn?†There is a reason why politicians don’t work the local comedy clubs. It is because the vast majority of politicos are about as funny as getting out of bed in the dark, tripping over your dog, and stubbing your toe. When politicians try to be funny, bad things usually happen.
What is terrorism?When “insurgents” kidnap simple working men supporting their families by buidling roads, simply so they can show how powerful they are, that is terrorism. When a political group trying to destroy a government uses bombs that is aimed to kill innocent civilians and not government targets, that is terrorism, whether the bomb be […]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said that during the meeting that he attended with President Bush yesterday he told the president that he felt that the war in Iraq could not be won through military force, and that he advocated the use of political, economic, and diplomatic methods. On Thursday, he made his thoughts public and took them a step further.
A bipartisan group of congressional lawmakers met today with President Bush at the White House to discuss the impasse that has developed over the funding bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The House and the Senate have each already passed funding bills that include a provision to withdraw the troops from Iraq.
An American tax-funded documentary, titled Islam vs. Islamists, a film on how moderate Muslims feel about the corruption of their religion by Wahhabi extremists and their experiences in facing those extremists, was axed by PBS for the very reason that it puts some Muslims in a bad light, says the film’s producer in Tuesday’s edition […]
Here we have yet another Canadian politician wallowing in his hatred for the USA. What will the Cannucks do about it? Probably nothing. They let terrorists come and go at will to and from Pakistan and points Mid Eastern every day without raising a hand. Why should they say anything about one of their OWN […]
The President used his radio address this week to talk about his scheduled meeting on Wednesday with congressional leaders over the Iraq war funding bill dispute.
Jalal Sharafi, diplomat and second secretary at the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad spoke today of his 57 days of suffering at the hands of his CIA kidnappers. Speaking from his wheel chair he gave a detailed account of his torture. Held in an underground basement for over 40 days of his ordeal by his captures […]
The British soldiers recently freed by Iran provide the case in point for why torture and strong-armed coercion techniques don’t work. But no one in the mainstream media seems to be talking about the example set by the soldiers “confessions” and how they serve as indictments on any “information” extracted from prisoners detained in places […]
And speaking of abstract danger, some here now speculate that the failed suitcase bombing attack in Cologne last summer was not merely an individual response to the Mohammed caricature controversy, but an initiation test for al Qaeda recruitment in Iraq instead. Two Lebanese students connected with the failed attack go on trail in Lebanon today, […]
The Washington Post is reporting that the White House is trying to create a new powerful position to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but they are having trouble finding anyone who is competent and also willing to take the job.
Republican Presidential candidate Sen. John McCain spoke on Wednesday morning at the Virginia Military Institute about his recent trip to Iraq, the progress he saw there, and why the United States needs to stay the course in both Iraq, and the war on terror.
During a speech to an American Legion post in Fairfax, VA, President Bush made an offer to the leadership of both political parties to come to the White House and discuss the impasse over funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
When reading about the story of protests in Colorado over the raising of a memorial statue to a fallen U.S. Soldier, one is tempted to feel that Americans have lost every vestige of manhood that it ever possessed. Just the very fact that someone would be so free of patriotism and testosterone that they’d protest […]
The AP is reporting that the Pentagon is considering extending the tours of duty for 15,000 soldiers currently in Iraq. Gen. David Petraeus, the U.S. commander in Iraq sees some positives coming from the January troop surge, so he is looking at ways of keeping force numbers higher through the summer.
There’s a minor kerfluffle on the blogs about the BBC refusing to air a film about a heroic medic who served in Iraq. For the BBC, however, his story is “too positive” about the conflict.The corporation has cancelled the commission for a 90-minute drama about Britain’s youngest surviving Victoria Cross hero because it feared it […]
In an interview that will air Sunday night in CBS’ 60 Minutes program, Republican presidential candidate John McCain said that he misspoke when he made optimistic comments about the security situation in Baghdad.
The president got down to the business of criticizing the Democrats for not sending him a war funding bill that does not include a call to withdraw the troops from Iraq.
Vice President Dick Cheney is still trying to convince the people of the world that there was a connection between Iraq and al-Qaeda before the U.S. invasion.
During his speech announcing the launch of his 2008 GOP presidential campaign, Tommy Thompson laid out what he called his three part plan for getting the U.S. troops out of Iraq sooner rather than later.
Citing sources within the Pentagon, the Thursday edition of the NBC Nightly News reported that Defense Secretary Robert Gates plans to put 12,000 more National Guard troops on alert for deployment to Iraq.
I have been waiting for the MSM to start the drumbeat against Fred Thompson that they so often and so boringly used (and still do) against Ronald Reagan; the refrain of “He’s just an actor†Now, Rebecca Sinderbrand of the New York Observer has used the general theme for her latest piece, The Mysterious Appeal […]
It’s always hard to sift through news reports, which tend to be “Ain’t it awful” and “if it bleeds it leads”. We saw this last week in the Philippines, where both CNN and BBC covered a “hostage crisis” as if it was a horror…but the reality is that it was a publicity stunt, the kids […]
Currently, there is a heated debated going on among House members. A matter of simple terminology has aroused passions on both sides of the aisle. The focus of all this debate is the question of whether or not the Iraq war should be considered a part of the global war on terror.
News Item: Brits trying to provoke war with Iran That according to the world renowned expert on foreign affairs, Rosie O’Donnell. She actually wrote that in her blog, referring to the British troops being held hostage in Iran. I didn’t even know she had a blog, but here is an excerpt: Â the british did […]
Despite the looming certainty of a presidential veto, Senate Democrats, along with the help of Republicans Chuck Hegel and Gordon Smith, passed a $123 billion emergency war spending bill, with the added catch that the bill requires President Bush to start withdrawing troops in 120 days, and sets a non binding target date of March 31, 2008 for the withdrawal of all troops from Iraq.
From our POW Code of Conduct “….I will never surrender of my own free will. If in command, I will never surrender the members of my command while they still have the means to resist. If I am captured, I will continue to resist by all means available. I will make every effort to escape […]
It is always interesting to me how a story can be published as if it is serious work, a story that almost seems plausible until you step back from it to realize that not a shred of proof to support the supposition was ever offered. After you’re done reading it you realize that all you […]
News Item: Brits dispute troops were in Iranian territory The British sailors being held hostage in Iran, were by all plausible evidence, well within Iraqi waters when captured. The Brits offered GPS coordinates showing where the incident took place. Iran countered with their own set of coordinates. When it was pointed out that this second […]
Representative Hank Johnson of Georgia’s 4th Congressional District has decided to “explain†whey he supports the cut and run act proposed by the House last week on a New Blog he has set up. Johnson’s blog is being hosted by the “Moderate Blog Network†and some may feel that the first term Georgia Representative fits […]
Our system of checks and balances gives Congress the power to declare war, and provide for funding for that war, however the Constitution does not grant Congress the authority to dictate tactical strategies such as dates for troop withdrawal.
News Item: Pat Tillman was killed by friendly fire The circumstance – Tillman’s patrol was ordered to split-up due to a disabled vehicle. The mountainous terrain interfered with radio contact. The patrol should have been kept together. It never should have happened. Tillman and two others reacted to nearby gunfire. They positioned themselves on a […]
Peace In Our Time Iran is scaring the Saudis so much they are trying to get the Palestinians to make peace with Israel: Under the plan, Arab nations would recognise Israel if Israel withdrew from all territories occupied in the 1967 war…which also allows for the creation of a Palestinian state and the return of […]
Recently on the Public Radio program Open Source, Christopher Lydon did a show on Iraqi Kurdistan, or, as it’s PR campaign calls it, “the other Iraq”. You can listen to the show and read the show notes here on Radio Open Source. He interviewed Qubad Talabani, Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) Representative to the United States […]
News Item: Actor Sean Penn speaks at anti-war rally Sean Penn was the celebrity draw at a town hall meeting in San Francisco last night, with hundreds in attendence. He was joined by Representative Barbara Lee of Oakland before the boistrous 800 or so supporters. Uhh… wait… back up – The official count by organizers […]
On March 18th, the New York Times published a piece titled “The Women’s War”. It was a feature of great length (18 pages on the Internet) centered around the plight of several female Veterans of the war in Iraq. It detailed the mistreatment they suffered by the US Military, sexual harassment they received at the […]
Fresh perspectives by: Whymrhymer Is it possible to, as the overused, anti-war shibboleth suggests, support the troops without supporting the war? I say yes, absolutely! Currently, the “Top Story” on Topix.net is a story from the CBS affiliate, KDKA with a headline that reads: Cheney: House Doesn’t Support U.S. Troops. Here is just a snippet […]
I have heard of passing bills late on Friday so that the public doesn’t know all the shenanigans that Congress is funding. But behind all the headlines behind the congress passes anti war bill headlines, are you aware that the bill was a 1.21 billion dollar budget bill supposed to be emergency funding for the […]
If this war is another Vietnam fiasco in the end, it will be just as much the fault of the Public Relations arm of the US Military as it is that of the enemy or the Mainstream Media. (Called PAOs for Public Affairs Officers from here on) It is assured that the large preponderance of […]
I don’t know if anyone else pays attention to the president’s weekly radio address, but I do. I don’t care what the party the president is from, to me, the weekly radio address is interesting because it gives a president a forum to talk about what they feel is important , without reporters, pundits, or an audience to deal with. Each week I hope to be able to provide you with a few choice excerpts from the address, and my opinions on what the president had to say.
News Item: House of Representatives passes troop funding bill A measure for emergency funding passed in the House yesterday by a 218 to 212 vote, but the voting was actually closer than that. Intially, Democrats lacked enough votes on their own side of the aisle to get the bill approved. Enter Pork Barrel Politics. Back […]
Leave it to the AP to turn the disintegration of the organization of one of our enemies in Iraq into a bad thing! That’s what we get with Wednesday’s analysis of the trouble that seems to be befalling the organization of Muqtada al-Sadr’s militia, a group that has resisted US led coalition government since day […]
Democrats scrambled today to find 218 votes to pass a war spending bill that would establish a timetable to bring American troops home. Even as the administration and Congressional Republicans worked aggressively to foil their effort. The White House said the $124 billion spending measure had “zero chance†to survive a presidential veto, and the […]
Senate Democrats have put together a war spending bill that contains a provision that would direct President Bush to start bringing home troops from Iraq with the long term goal being a removal of all U.S. forces in a little over a year.
News reports of a soldier’s child who is ill from his father’s smallpox vaccine shows the reason that we no longer vaccinate everyone. Years ago, when we used the vaccine, we saw a lot of complications, but in those days when you could catch smallpox and when lawyers weren’t as active, it was viewed as […]
On Saturday war protestors numbering in the thousands marched on the Pentagon to protest the beginning of the fifth year of the Iraq war. Protestors crossed the Memorial Bridge over the Potomac River from the Lincoln Memorial to gather as close to the Pentagon as they could get. A counter protest supporting the war shadowed the antiwar […]
I wonder if the MSM ever gets tired of trying to make evil look good? And if they aren’t trying to make evil look like good, they are trying to soft peddle evil with a they-are-really-just-like-us analysis of evil’s actions. Such is the case today in the Boston Globe wherein writer H.D.S. Greenway equates Iraqi […]
On Wednesday, the top three candidates for the Democratic nomination each separately promised that, if elected, their respective administrations would provide better health care for veterans.
The AP is protesting a decision made by U.S. Military officials in Afghanistan claiming an oppression of a free press and saying there was “not a reasonable justification” for erasing an AP photographer’s pictures taken of the aftermath of a suicide bombing in Barikaw, Afghanistan. The decision protested by the AP was made March 4th […]
In the “war on terror”, President Bush has tried to prevent the cynical from pointing fingers at Islam as the cause. So when tens of Muslim pilgrims were killed last week, aside from being headline fodder to imply Bush’s surge wasn’t working, few tried to see the “why” behind this senseless killing. Obviously it was […]
By Jefferson Flanders Perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that we—Americans—are not the only ones who must now confront conspiracy theories about terrorist attacks. About a third of the Spanish public disbelieves the “official version†of the March 11, 2004 train bombings in Madrid, just as a dismayingly sizeable number of Americans think that they haven’t […]
On Wednesday, Democrats in the U.S. Senate plan to open debate on a resolution to withdraw the troops from Iraq. Republicans said today that recent events in Iraq have convinced them that it would be better to allow debate on President Bush’s war policy than to block debate on the issue for a third time.
**Breaking News** Want another example of Democrats assisting the enemy? Need more proof that Democrats are weak on defense and stand with those who wish to destroy our culture in particular and western civilization in general? CAIR OK’d to meet in Capitol A House Democrat has arranged for a conference room in the Capitol building […]
Saddam Hussein stopped the Shiite pilgrimages under his regieme. He was a secular Sunni, and historically the Sunnis despised the Shiite branch of Islam as heretics. The good news is that since his fall, Shiites have been allowed to perform pilgrimages to Karbala and other holy shrines, and that many Iranian pilgrims also attend the […]
President Bush has approved adding 4,400 more troops to the force buildup which is designed to bring security to Iraq. Bush also formally requested $3.2 billion to pay for the additional troops. In January, Bush announced that he would deploy 21,500 more U.S. troops to Iraq to try to stabilize Baghdad and restive Anbar province. The […]
News Item: Walter Reed Hospital Delays, neglect, mold, and rats Full Story: CNN Cartoon from Sid in the City
News Item: Iraq withdrawal plan specifics unclear Full Story: Washington Times Cartoon from Sid in the City
It would appear as though the troop surge and restructuring of responsibilities and responses in Iraq is having a positive effect in Baghdad. Army officials have said that the frequency of civil war related violence in the most dangerous areas of Baghdad has gone down by 80 percent in the last month. Nothing was said […]
It appears as though the Democrats have decided that pressuring President Bush is their best course of action to end the Iraq War. The legislation which was revealed today certainly could be described as “pushing.” The Democrats have a plan which is designed to remove all US combat troops from Iraq by fall of next […]
In a tweak of US policy, the US military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, stated in a press conference that force (i.e.the US Military presence in Iraq) is not enough to defeat the insurgency in Iraq. This is an evolution of the policy in Iraq from its earlier approach where the official statement was […]
It is noteworthy that the Libby conviction has generated a number of articles on a possible pardon for Mr. Libby, ostensibly a pardon from the White House. What makes this most interesting is the fact that the Pardon “buzz” circulating, has come from the media, and not from any sources within the Government. This would […]
I will never let my daughter join the military. I know this is somewhat foolish, as someday she will be eighteen and headstrong (okay, more headstrong). But it’s not just a mother’s simple wish to keep her daughter out of harm’s way. It’s because of this article in Salon. Seventy-one percent of women veterans of […]
A lot of the misunderstanding about Iraq is the failure to see the thousand plus year divide between Sunni and Shiia Islam. The Farsi Shiia are not the same as the Arab Shia, but the meddling of Iran into Iraq can be understood not only as Iranian mullah’s mischiefmaking but as supporting their fellow Shia. […]
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama blamed the Bush administration’s war in Iraq for strengthening Iran’s strategic position in the Middle East.
The Walter Reed scandal is nothing new.The good news is that DanaPriest at the WAPO did an expose on Walter Reed’s decrepit condition. The bad news is that this was general knowledge for years, and so in 2005 there was even talk of shutting the place down . The linked article merely says the plan […]
After much contentious debate, both internally and publicly, House Democrats seem to have come to an agreement on legislation for the Iraq war.
Democratic House leaders are developing a proposal that would not take away money from the troops, but it would require President Bush to report to Congress more often, and also acknowledge problems caused by military resources being stretched too thin.
More from the “religion of peace” is a story out of London, Police protect girls forced to convert to Islam. Extremist Muslims who force vulnerable teenage girls to convert to Islam are being targeted by police, Met chief Sir Ian Blair has revealed. Police are working with universities to clamp down on “aggressive conversions” during […]
By Jefferson Flanders Borrowing a line, once again, from New York newspaper columnist Jimmy Cannon: nobody asked me, but… AN ASTONISHING QUOTE FROM CHRISTOPHER RUDDY, anti-Clinton conspiracy theorist, surfaced this week in the New York Times. Ruddy, whose “investigations” of alleged “corrupt land deals, sexual affairs, drug running and murder” by Bill and Hillary Clinton […]
Public comments such as the ones Obama made would have been unthinkable from the time after 9/11 through the 2004 election. The Iraq war has had the unintended consequence of emboldening and empowering the Democratic Party.
In contrast, Cheney called his friend Rumsfeld a great defense secretary. “I know a little bit about the job. I’ve watched what he’s done over there for six years. I think he did a superb job in terms of managing the Pentagon under extraordinarily difficult circumstances. He and John McCain had a number of dustups over policy, didn’t have anything to do with Iraq,” Cheney said.
The worst thing about pop culture celebrities is their ever downwardly spiraling behavior. To get noticed they feel they must indulge in ever more outrageous behavior until they end up dead like Anna Nichol Smith or a drunken, debauched mess like the empty-headed Britney Spears. Sadly, the media and the gossip rags eat it up.This […]
In a press conference shocking constituents and opponents alike, President Bush announced today that he is now a proponent of stem cell research. Bush declared, “My eyes have been open to both the need and the—ah—ah—um—ah—um—ah—um—um—ah—the—ah—ah—provantages of stem cell research.†Opponents responded in disbelief. Others added a need to be wary of his intentions. What’s […]
England’s Prince Harry may be deployed to Iraq. British officials aren’t confirming the deployment, but The Daily Mirror in London is reporting that Harry will be on the front lines in Iraq by the end of the month. A story published on Saturday said that Harry, 22, would head to Basra with his fellow soldiers […]
GetReligionBlog, which is by a professional journalist who covers the press and it’s problems with religious coverage, has had an ongoing series about the failure of the press to cover the Sunni Shiite divide in Isalm. The question has not been discussed very much in the stories about the war on terror even though the […]
When I worked in Africa, the local baboons would steal the corn when it was getting large enough to harvest. If enough of the crop was taken, it meant starvation for the families. Traditionally, women and children guarded the crops, but baboons could seriously bite, and would attack women and children. So men, who were […]
People die in Iraq every day. Not, of course, merely for the reasons people die everywhere, but because insurgents want to kill people. They want to kill American soldiers and those of the Sunni or Shia persuasion. That’s not news anymore. It’s just a sad fact of life. We could spend the twenty years debating whose fault it […]
By Jefferson Flanders As Jimmy Cannon, columnist extraordinaire, used to say, “Nobody asked me, but…” NEW YORK CITY MAY BE LOSING SOME GROUND TO LONDON as a center for financial markets, but the Big Apple will remain the world’s capitol of media, publishing, fashion, art, and pop culture whether or not some investments move from […]
In a rare Saturday session, supporters of the nonbinding resolution opposing President Bush’s troop surge in Iraq were still unable to get the required 60 votes to end debate and put the measure to a vote. The vote was 56-34 in favor of putting the resolution to a vote. The same resolution passed the House […]
One of the most important events that the Bush administration would be waiting for is to see whether the new push for stability in Iraq seems to be working. While being told by the House of Representatives that its policy in Iraq is wrong, Condy Rice is in Bahgdad to confer over the recent strategy. […]
In keeping with their constant quest to saddle the USA with the fault for the growing unrest in he Middle East, the Washington Post has unleashed another article, replete with some efforts to blame-the-USA-first, titled “Across Arab World, a Widening Rift”. In the first paragraph, writer Anthony Shadid illustrates the traditionally intertwined nature of Egypt’s […]
Cop killer bullets were once debated in public, but there hasn’t been much about it lately. Cop killer bullets is merely another name for any bullet that can pierce body armor. However, in wartime, both body armor and the steel plates that protect vehicles is a bit thicker than that in civilian use. Yet yesterday, […]
With all the controversy that is in the air over the War in Iraq, and the pressure to open negotiations with Iran and Syria, one would think that the U.S. would have a unified approach in its policy on the region. This week’s contradiction between Defense Secretary Gates comments about evidence linking the Iranians to […]
The AP has found a new way to attack TV’s 24. They say that because of the depiction of character Jack Bauer’s, shall we say, short-cuts in interrogating prisoners his ways have now infected the US Military. Absurdly, the AP is advancing the case, in “Does Jack Bauer Influence Interrogators?”, that “there are indications that […]
Over the weekend, Democratic Presidential Barak Obama uttered the now familiar phrase, “I support the troops, but not the war,” or words to that effect. What does this odd sounding phrase really mean? How you “support” someone, without also hoping that the are successful in their endeavors? Maybe we should look at the definition of […]
It is a shocker, but the AP actually let loose a kernel of truth about the situation in Iraq in one of their reports for a change. To wit, if Iraqi insurgents wait long enough, the USA will leave and they can come back on the scene with guns blazing and knives sharpened for decapitations. […]
Let us not go into the usual line of how American forces are suffering in the same way that their previous generation had suffered in Vietnam, that particular piece of linen has been washed, dried and once again washed many times before. No..let us see the situation from another angle…that of the neighboring country. During […]
News Item: The troops also need to support the American people. The news item above refers to an article written by one William M. Arkin in the Washington Post. It seems Mr Arkin is somewhat concerned [or offended] by the lack of support our troops have shown towards him. Mr Arkin positions his article as […]
But stunningly, after the U.S. Senate failed to agree on terms for the debate of the various Iraq war resolutions before it, the New York Times editorial board has come down in blaming the Democrat leadership.
Dana Milbank is mad at Democrats for somehow letting Former Iraq Chief Paul Bremer off the hook today in the Washington Post’s â€Rusty Democrats Unable to Pin Anything on Bremerâ€. I guess to show he is a real meterosexual, Milbank starts his piece off with an observation on Bremer’s choice of footwear and draws the […]
To: Wm. Arkin, “Military Expertâ€* From: Sgt Mom Re: Stop Digging 1. I take pen in hand, metaphorically speaking after reading your latest apologetic non-apology, to offer some kindly advice: Put down the shovel, step away from the hole and for the love of mike, stop digging. Possibly your editor or kindly-intentioned friends have already […]
Ain’t technology wunnerful? I mean, it saves all that wear and tear on the VW Mini-Bus, saves the trees that would otherwise be cut down for anti-war signs, the paint, the tye-dying of shirts, the buying of sandals… heck all sorts of things and time can be saved because the World Wide Web has brought […]
The Huntress, who is a supporter of the military and their families, brought this story to my attention. Although I am a news junkie, I hadn’t heard or read that Gary Sinise had given a talk to the National Press Club last week to discuss a new memorial to honor disabled American Veterans. So I […]
Unbelievably, the Democrats invited a radical Muslim Imam to give an invocation at their Democratic National Committee Winter Meeting today. His name is Husham al-Husainy and he is Imam of the Karbalaa Islamic Foundation in Dearborn, Michigan (a Shi’ite sect). – VIDEO LINK. During this “prayer”, al-Husainy said: We thank you, god to send us […]
England is fast becoming but simple a plot of land floating in the sea instead of a nation of culture guided by a rich legal tradition. It is a tale of warning for the USA, the moral of which is don’t allow minorities to set up a parallel culture or you will cease to be […]
Nearly 3,000 Americans killed in a series of attacks on one single day — the most American civilians ever killed in a single day with coordinated attacks — was no big deal as far as David Bell writing for the L.A. Times is concerned. The attacks were a horrible act of mass murder, but history […]