Category Archives: Iraq

The disobedient lieutenant

Posted on February 24, 2009 | Comments Off on The disobedient lieutenant

An Army lieutenant in Iraq is making a fool of himself and dishonoring the uniform by publically questioning the president’s right to his office. Some milblog commentors are cheering him on. I think he should be courts-martialed for this stunt. At the least he should resign his commission. He obviously doesn’t understand it.

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Those Iraq elections

Posted on February 4, 2009 | Comments Off on Those Iraq elections

We didn’t hear much about the Iraq elections. A few purple-finger photos, but that’s all. Why? Too quiet. Besides, making a big deal about it would only make W. look good and Big Media would never do that. But the Marine, MG John Kelley, who until recently ran Al Anbar province notes that, for its people, this was the first free election of their lives.

MORE:  On the other hand, there’s an outside chance it could all unravel again.

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Barry to Pentagon: Cut 11 percent

Posted on January 30, 2009 | Comments Off on Barry to Pentagon: Cut 11 percent

Strategic retreat, indeed. B. Hussein Obama hinted at such a retreat in his interview with Al-Arabiya, looking back thirty years (the Carter administration) to a purported U.S.-Arab Golden Age. Not that the bloated Pentagon couldn’t lose its spare tire, but the times certainly are not propitious for dieting. With all that battered equipment from Iraq that needs replacing. Especially not with a trillion in civilian pork already moving through the Congressional intestine. ACORN could get a few billion. The military must cut fifty-five billion.

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IPOD goes to war

Posted on January 22, 2009 | Comments Off on IPOD goes to war

I have avoided the wussy IPOD as just another over-priced piece of Apple detritus. But if it can forecast and track a sniper’s bullet from muzzle to impact, well, maybe not. So long, jihadis!

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Commercial jets return to Baghdad

Posted on January 3, 2009 | Comments Off on Commercial jets return to Baghdad

Best confirming sign yet of 2008’s biggest (perhaps only) blessing: US military’s victory in Iraq.

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The shoe-thrower

Posted on December 17, 2008 | Comments Off on The shoe-thrower

It takes no courage at all to throw something at an American president, as VDH says. Real courage would be throwing a shoe at Saddam or any other Arab/Persian dictator. But that, of course, would get you a noose–if the security police let you live long enough to make it to the scaffold.

UPDATE:  Looks like he only got a beating. Tough cookies, Muntazer. Ah, but now he has a new excuse. The old assault-on-the-Koran libel. Bosh.

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Iraq safer than Mexico

Posted on December 15, 2008 | Comments Off on Iraq safer than Mexico

It’s official, size ten flying shoes to the contrary notwithstanding:

"The police are generally helpless, hundreds of thousands of middle-class Mexicans have fled the border region, often to the United States (if they had dual-citizenship, which many do). Those without money must hunker down and wait for someone to win this war."

We could put the gangsters out of business and stop it all, if Barry had the nerve to end the failed drug war.

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