Category Archives: The War

High anxiety

Bush Derangement Syndrome is in passing-gear these days in Washington and the MSM over Iran:

"Yes, let’s examine for a moment the idea that a regime that has been making war against us for 27 years (without a significant response by us, by the way, in all that time) is somehow not perceived as a threat and does not generate much anxiety; but the President of the US who stands up against the terrorism of Saddam, Bin Laden, and Ahmadinejad and the Mullahs generates high anxiety?"

More from Dr. Sanity, who has the diagnosis, if not the cure.

Muslim mall killer

Sulejman Talovic, the 18-year-old killer who slew five people and wounded four, all at random, at a Salt Lake City shopping mall on Monday was a Muslim from Bosnia–and the fifth berserk lone Muslim to kill or wound people in this country in less than one year:

"Witnesses told the Deseret Morning News that Talovic appeared to be ‘hunting’ people. Some described a calm expression on his face as he aimed his shotgun and fired…Ajka Omerovic, who said she was Talovic’s aunt…told the Deseret Morning News that Talovic had been ‘a good boy.’ She said the family are Muslims from Bosnia who had lived in the vicinity of Sarajevo."

And (surprise, surprise)  it’s all just another coincidence, says the MSM, fashionably forgetting all about Islamic terrorism. Wikipedia left out the boy’s Muslim background altogether, then took down their page after LGF pointed out the discrepancy. Today, the Deseret Morning news attacked LGF over some of its commenters on the subject, since as the paper reported, there’s "no record" that Talovic–who was killed by an off-duty cop as he stalked his victims–had ever attended any area mosques. As if that was definitive proof of anything.

Five berserk lone Muslims since March of 2006. Looks like a trend to me.

Facing Pelosi

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Cartoon by Michael Ramirez, via the Discerning Texan. 

B-1 over Baghdad

Omar at Iraq the Model posts a cellphone snapshot of a B-1 Lancer a few thousand feet over his city, apparently as part of the crackdown of the surge which, he says, already is being felt by residents:

"On the streets, checkpoints and roadblocks are becoming increasingly serious and strict in doing their job; soldiers and policemen are sparing no vehicles or convoys from searching and I personally saw a case yesterday where an ambulance driver tried to rush his vehicle through a checkpoint but the soldiers ordered him to stop and let him pass only after they checked the inside of the vehicle finding only a civilian medical emergency."

As for the B-1, its satellite-guided, 500-pound GBU-38 "reduces undesired collateral damage and is very useful in urban Close Air Support," according to Wikipedia.

The death of friends

Teflon Don, a recently promoted specialist in Iraq, on the IED deaths of three of his platoon:

"Time is supposed to slow down when you’re in the moment, not when you’re hearing of it. The next four hours are glacial- slower and colder than I could have thought…the breeze twisting dogtags around a rifle like a devils windchime, and carrying once again the plaintive notes of the bagpipe playing Amazing Grace."

A good, although sad, read. Condolences, Don.

Mookie takes a powder

Best news yet from Iraq. Mookie has lit out for the territories, i.e. to his buddies in Tehran:

"Sources believe al Sadr is worried about an increase of 20,000 U.S. troops in the Iraqi capital. One official told ABC News’ Martha Raddatz, "He is scared he will get a JDAM [bomb] dropped on his house. Sources say some of the Mahdi army leadership went with al Sadr."

He should have been killed a long time ago. But skedaddling will have to do. Captain Ed has more.

UPDATE  Well, maybe not, according to his Iraq associates, one of whom calls the little thug "his eminence." Let’s hope his demise becomes imminent.

Iran’s free ride

Support the troops–except when it comes to Iran, which has killed 170 and wounded more than 600 in Iraq, according to the Pentagon. But the Bush administration apparently has done nothing about it, and now that it is talking about doing something about it, the Democrats are threatening to retaliate–against the administration. Doesn’t anybody here know how to play this game?

UPDATE  Among the arms Iran is sending into Iraq are these .50 caliber Austrian sniper rifles.