Category Archives: The War

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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Memorial Day in Afghanistan

Posted on May 26, 2008 | Comments Off on Memorial Day in Afghanistan

Michael Yon on the way they do it at Bagram Air Force Base, when the C-17 arrives to take another warrior home. And this good Pajamas media piece on the truth about who serves and who doesn’t.

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That G.I. Bill

Posted on May 23, 2008 | Comments Off on That G.I. Bill

Glad to see a version of the Vietnam-era bill pass. Sorry to see it was the one predicted to lower retention rates by sixteen percent. But that’s the Dems for you. They’ll interfere with the war if they can find a way. Meanwhile Dumbocrat veterans (yep, there are some, hard as it might be to fathom) are whacking McCain for not voting for it. Even Barry, the I-never-served-and-never-will candidate, had the nerve to question Mac’s committment to his fellow soldiers. Mac smacked Barry back good. The benefits were actually more generous in Mac’s bill, which did not pass, but increased with length of service, negating the retention problem.

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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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Checkpoint value

Posted on May 20, 2008 | Comments Off on Checkpoint value

To hear the media tell it, Israel’s checkpoints don’t do much more than harrass the long-suffering Palestinians. The Palis are always trying to get the "peace process" to eliminate the security checkpoints. They usually fail because every so often, another suicide bomber tries to get through, like the 20-year-old Arab man wearing five pipe bombs who was shot and killed by the IDF at a Samaria checkpoint last night.

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Moore the bore

Posted on May 19, 2008 | Comments Off on Moore the bore

Fatso Michael Moore, the unethical cretin who ripped off a classic science fiction novel for the title of his fictional political screed on President Bush, is ripping off Michael Yon’s classic Iraq photo for Moore’s latest pathetic whatever. Yon’s lawyer is on the case. Go get ’em!

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Maybe Mahmoud ain’t so mad

Posted on May 17, 2008 | Comments Off on Maybe Mahmoud ain’t so mad

Afterall, he’s getting away with murder in Iraq, and the Bush administration and Congress ain’t doing nothin’, while Barry talks about a sit-down to understand Mahmoud’s pain.

UPDATE: So, when Bush does the only thing he ever does about this matter, i.e. talk, he manages to enrage Barry, Hilarity, Nancy, etc. For why? Because they won’t do anything, either, and don’t like to be reminded. Such unanimity.

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