Category Archives: The War

Heroes

Posted on February 12, 2007 | Comments Off on Heroes

Fifty of them, from all fifty states, including Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Juan M. Rubio, of Texas.

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Barack the Banal*

Posted on February 12, 2007 | Comments Off on Barack the Banal*

Democrat presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama (are we really ready for this guy?) kicks off his campaign by using the Left’s chickenhawk ploy to insult John Howard, the prime minister of America’s most venerable ally, suggesting Australia hasn’t done enough in Iraq.

As Wretchard notes, the Aussie’s 1,400 troops are proportionately about right for a nation of only 20 million. In any case, in addition to the chickenhawk argument being used mainly by chickens, Obama-rama is anti-war. So, apart from being politically boring with nothing new to say–at best, a black Dennis Kucinich–in my book he’s also irrelevant. Except, as Howard says, to OBL who would welcome a withdrawal from OBL’s proposed new caliphate. But perhaps I err. Even Kucinich would have more guts than to put off his proposed withdrawal from Iraq thirteen months in the future. Now who’s the chickenhawk?

*HT to Roger L. Simon 

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Our carrier fleet –2nd to none.

Posted on February 11, 2007 | Comments Off on Our carrier fleet –2nd to none.

When Russia’s Vladimir Putin starts whining about the USA dominating the world, you know part of it is because he’s a dictator and the world he has in mind is other dictators like the mad mullahs of Iran–and with a few, lamentable exceptions in past and current policies, we don’t like ’em. But he could also be talking about the 11 large and 12 small carriers of the US Navy, more than at any time since World War II. According to the blogger War is Boring:

"Only two other countries possess large carriers: France and Russia, each with just one. And even these “large” carriers are only 2/3 the size of our Nimitz-class ships. The other half-dozen carrier-equipped navies such as the British Royal Navy and the navies of Spain, Italy and India operate small carriers flying just Harriers. Put another way, our carrier fleet is bigger than the rest of the world’s combined, and flies more jets than most of the world’s air forces."

Worth a read. 

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Those lovable Iranians

Posted on February 10, 2007 | Comments Off on Those lovable Iranians

They are incensed–incensed!–at perceived injustice, wherever they find it in the world, particularly if it’s outside of Iran and in Texas–in this case right up the road from the Rancho in a little town called Taylor.

"There is a prison camp in Taylor, Texas named Hutto Residential Center [actually, the T. Don Hutto Residential Center]. It opened in May of last year. It has hundreds of children from six months old and up with their moms imprisoned there — in cells, 22 hours a day, prison uniforms, behind razor wire walls — for profit by a private prison company called Correctional Corporation of America (CCA)."

This is a holding facility for some of the hordes of illegal immigrants from Mexico who are flowing across the U.S.-Mexico border at the rate of about 1 million a year–presumably accompanied by lots of Iranians bent on mischief. The ACLU (who else?) got into the act Friday, telling the Austin daily they will investigate alleged violations of human rights at the facility. The heinous "for profit," bit apparently scars the souls of socialists everywhere, but is increasingly common in the USA as a means of keeping taxes low. Not that I believe that the Iranians or anyone else are more humane, you understand. Quite the contrary.

Via Simply Jews 

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Sea Knight shootdown

Posted on February 10, 2007 | Comments Off on Sea Knight shootdown

Very jerky al Q video (with, oddly, a singing chorus) of the missile shootdown of the CH-46 Sea Knight over Iraq this past Wednesday, Feb. 7. The crew and passengers obviously had plenty of time to realize what was happening before the helicopter was engulfed in flames and crashed. Freelance embed Bill Roggio, a former Army officer with signal and infantry experience, says his sources say it could have been a Russian-made Strela 3 shoulder-fired missile provided by Iran. If so, how long will we let this go on?

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Iran, again

Posted on February 9, 2007 | Comments Off on Iran, again

The 26 Americans killed in five helicopter shootdowns in Iraq since Jan. 20 were the latest casualties in our unheralded war with Iran inside Iraq, according to Bill Roggio’s intelligence sources. The action the Democrats in Congress seem determined to keep from becoming obvious with a strike against Iran itself. But it’s another underscoring of the fact that until we take the fight to Tehran and Damascus, no amount of Baghdad neighborhood scouring is going to work for long.

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The war within

Posted on February 7, 2007 | Comments Off on The war within

The American opposition to Iraq rises, threatening a million demonstrators before the year is out:

"A band of Republican senators, including Nebraska’s Chuck Hagel, threatened Wednesday to shut down the Senate until it debates a resolution disagreeing with President Bush’s troop surge for Iraq."

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