Category Archives: Iraq

Mr. Bumble: The law is a ass

Posted on March 31, 2008 | Comments Off on Mr. Bumble: The law is a ass

One man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist, as the famous relativist’s line goes. In this case the one man speaking of Saman Kareem Ahmad is U.S. Army General David Petraeus, and the other "man," so to speak, are the incompetent bureaucrats of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. Michael Totten explains.

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Stake through their hearts

Posted on March 28, 2008 | Comments Off on Stake through their hearts

The Iraqi endgame is in sight. Insightful, non-biased reporting from freelance correspondent Michael Yon:

"If there is an increase in casualties here as we go into the summer of 2008, it is because our people and the Iraqi forces are closing in. We have seen just how deadly al Qaeda can be. This enemy is desperate. They know they are losing."

Via Fresh Bilge 

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Four and a half hours of twaddle

Posted on March 25, 2008 | Comments Off on Four and a half hours of twaddle

Well, at least they titled it honestly, in the sense that the title, Bush’s War, is so hamhandedly political that you know from the get-go just what the nabobs of the misnamed Public Broadcasting System are up to. But the ads, whose footnote is "the complete saga," are a bald lie:

"Frontline didn’t manage to find any time at all to mention the name of the most significant Iraq commander of all, Gen. David Petraeus. You could view all four and a half hours of this series and remain innocent of any knowledge of the dramatic turning of the tribes in Anbar that began in late 2006, as the Sunnis woke up to their own interest. Of the hard-fought, highly successful campaigns of 2007 to run al-Qaeda out of Baghdad, Diyala, the southern ‘Triangle of Death,’ not a peep. The fact that Moqtada al-Sadr has been intimidated into maintaining his truce, and that his forces are divided, nothing."

In other words, the take-home thought of the two-part series that concludes tonight will be that we’re losing. Or, rather, that the hated Bush is losing. What Lefty crep. And to think that our tax money went to pay for this one-sided Democrat Party poop. Honest journalism went down the toilet years ago. Thank goodness for the Internet. Better to know before wasting four hours of your life on stale tripe.

You’d be so much better off, and certainly know more, to visit and subscribe to a true Iraq journalist with no axe to grind–and he doesn’t mix metaphors the way I do, and he spellz better.

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Iraq victory

Posted on March 20, 2008 | Comments Off on Iraq victory

I confess that it makes me a little nervous to hear President Bush predict that the Iraq campaign will end in a victory. (The BBC has him already proclaiming victory, but, as we know, they are often fact-challenged.) The Dems, of course, already portray it as a defeat. Neither view seems entirely accurate. It certainly is the gentlest war this country has ever been in–fewest friendly, enemy and bystander casualties–despite lasting five years so far. I would expect it to take a lot longer, especially since we have tolerated, instead of eradicating, enemy sanctuaries in Iran and Syria. But even the media, when it is honest about it, knows the Iraqi people want us there. And it could very well turn out to be better for us, in the long run, even than bringing peace to Germany and Japan. Because, after all, Iraq’s is the region where we get much of our oil, and whatever we may think of the politics of oil, our economy and our lives depend utterly upon it.

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Referendum

Posted on February 15, 2008 | Comments Off on Referendum

Despite all the fancy, tax-raising promises of this or that by the Dems, the presidential race will be a referendum on the war, particularly the Iraq campaign for which the Lefty Obama-rama already has plans:

“’Obama will immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq,’ says a statement on the senator’s Web site. ‘He will remove one to two combat brigades each month, and have all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months. Obama will make it clear that we will not build any permanent bases in Iraq. He will keep some troops in Iraq to protect our embassy and diplomats; if al Qaeda attempts to build a base within Iraq, he will keep troops in Iraq or elsewhere in the region to carry out targeted strikes on al Qaeda.‘”

As Michael Totten says, the hedge at the end only means he’ll eschew counterinsurgency for a return to smart bombs and civilian casualties. This is why I think the Dems are headed for defeat. The lefties want to cut and run, they always have. But I’m betting no one else does. 

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Graham to Iraq

Posted on February 14, 2008 | Comments Off on Graham to Iraq

Republic nominee-to-be John McCain says he relies on Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator from my birth state of South Carolina, to keep him informed on Iraq. If, as some are speculating, McCain chooses lawyer Graham to run as his VP, Graham’s new employer, the Air Force, will have to send him home again. Shouldn’t be a problem, of course.

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Inspiring the Giants

Posted on February 3, 2008 | Comments Off on Inspiring the Giants

Remains to be seen whether it’ll be enough, but Army Iraq veteran LTC Greg Gadson, who played football at West Point, has been an inspiration to the New York Giants. We can expect he’ll be on their sidelines at the Super Bowl later today and remember to look for him.

Thanks to rare regular reader Anna for the link.

UPDATE:  I guess Gadson was good enough, because they won it all in the final minute, 17-14. 

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