Category Archives: Iraq

Mac’s big in Iraq

Posted on June 25, 2008 | Comments Off on Mac’s big in Iraq

No, this post by Roland Dodds won’t impress the Lefties. The ones I know have been saying for some time that they wish we’d leave the Iraqis to stew in their own juice. But it might have an interesting effect on the Independents, the ones Mac really needs to get if he can, to know that the Iraqis find him more persuasive than Baby Barry, whose entire idea of war and strategy comes from books and old movies. Of course, our election is not the Iraqis’ decision to make. But it’s nice to know that they care, all the same. I hope their prayers for Mac help. Prayer is always good.

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The air-conditioning generation

Posted on June 17, 2008 | Comments Off on The air-conditioning generation

Started considering this concept the other day while playing catch with Mr. B. He was whining about the heat. I realized that he’s never known anything except air conditioning while I grew up without it. It wasn’t common until the early 1960s when I was in my twenties. Did that help acclimate me to heat? Maybe. But the notion falls apart when I think of the volunteers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many of them are in their late teens and early twenties. So they were part of the air-conditioning generation, too, and they aren’t getting much, or any, of it over there. Maybe Mr. B. just has to toughen up by growing up. I hope so. Father worries.

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Why we need to win in Iraq

Posted on June 14, 2008 | Comments Off on Why we need to win in Iraq

Baby Barry and Mac apparently can’t agree on the formats for more than a few "debates," as contrived as the "debates" have been in the past and likely will continue to be. Baby Barry’s got the money and, so far, the polls and so he has no reason to give Mac anything. Can’t blame him for that. As for Mac, well, some of the Seablogger’s pessimism is starting to rub off on me. Mac the moderate better get off it and start explaining why he champions the Iraq campaign and why the rest of us better suck it up, too. There are good arguments, but he needs to make them and not try to duck the whole thing. Starting here, where even the Dem thinktankers agree, would be a good idea.

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Nearing the finish line in Iraq

Posted on June 10, 2008 | Comments Off on Nearing the finish line in Iraq

Thanks to Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki, and the ISF, Al Q and the Shiite militias are on the run, and even the MSM is noticing.

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Imbalance

Posted on June 1, 2008 | Comments Off on Imbalance

"The U.S. military has more combat aircraft and pilots than infantry squads," Bing West in 2005’s No True Glory.

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Barry shys away from Iraq

Posted on May 31, 2008 | Comments Off on Barry shys away from Iraq

You can’t blame him. He might be forced to change his pullout plans. His base wouldn’t like that a bit.

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Iraq support rises

Posted on May 22, 2008 | Comments Off on Iraq support rises

Barry’s crowd has some retrenching to do. They’ve long been throwing around the sixty-percent-oppose-the-Iraq-campaign poll figure as a justification for their cut-and-run views. But some recent polling shows a sharp rise to fifty-three percent saying the U.S. will succeed in reaching its goals in Iraq. Even CBS admits this could "alter the dynamics of races up and down the ballot." I’ve never been a fan of polling, which is hampered as never before by changes in the way Americans use their phones. The polls were predicting Kerry would beat Bush right up until election day 2004. But if you live by the polls, Dems, you gotta die by them, too.

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