Category Archives: The War

The national security question

Two videos, one from Barack Hussein Obama and one from John McCain, say it all for me. Your vote.

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.

Fitna

Good flicker. I was lucky to see it before the owners of LiveLeak misplaced their gonads and took it down. Threats, they say. I am not surprised. It pulls no punches on Islam or its crazy practitioners. Not nice, at all. The title is from Arabic, meaning temptation or trial. I’m sure it is a trial for the Jihadists to see it out there for all to understand. LGF still has a version, which is also available at YouTube. For how long is anybody’s guess. Pat Dollard swears he will keep it on his blog, come what may. This is viral marketing at its finest. Screw the bloody-minded censors.

UPDATE:  Then YouTube took it down as another blogger, a Muslim, whose site is called the City of Brass, put it up. Even though the site author calls the Dutch flick a laughable, guilt-by-association polemic. I agree that it isn’t original and it’s one-sided. But it’s a good reminder and still worth a look. The Seablogger also liked it. 

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 

Bring your daughter to war day

Sick humor. It seems to be that kind of day. But this is via Op-For, a certified, active-duty Mil blog. Does that make the gallows humor okay? Works for me.

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.

Barry’s mountebank

You can believe the usual prevarication of the Democrat house organ MSM ("the pastor flap") that poor ole Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s words were cherry picked or taken out of context by that nasty Fox News, whose alternative, contradictory voice they cannot stand. Or you can take the time to hear him out, in complete context, in his post 9/11 America-Had-It-Coming Memorial service. Courtesy of an obviously-angry Filipino, Wretchard of the Belmont Club, who mourns fifteen compatriots, ordinary folks lost in the Twin Towers.