Category Archives: The War

The elite are such phonies

Posted on January 28, 2007 | Comments Off on The elite are such phonies

Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs posts the official Davos clip from which Lurch’s tendentious remarks, including calling the US "sort of an international pariah," have been…erased. But Johnson also has posted underneath the official one a YouTube clip showing Kerry uttering the remarks. History’s not so easy to manipulate these days, is it now?

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More on Karbala

Posted on January 28, 2007 | Comments Off on More on Karbala

Omar at Iraq the Model isn’t the only one who thinks the Karbala attack, which killed Army CPT Brian Freeman and abducted four others who were later murdered, was an Iranian operation. Freelance embed Bill Roggio lines up and knocks over the dominoes:

"This raid required specific intelligence, in depth training for the agents to pass as American troops, resources to provide for weapons, vehicles, uniforms, identification, radios and other items needed to successfully carry out the mission."

Jimbo at Black Five agrees: "The location of the target, the sophistication of the operation, the lack of beheading, all point to a precision raid by highly-trained regular military forces. Iran did this."

So, are we finally going to strike back at the principal supporters of terrorism in the world or are we going to continue to play pattycake with the toothless dictator’s club of the UN? If Bush doesn’t mind thumbing his nose at the anti-war Democrat Congress over Iraq, surely he won’t quail at finally doing what he should have done back in 2003–hitting Iran and its crony-in-evil Syria?

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Top myths of the Iraq campaign

Posted on January 28, 2007 | Comments Off on Top myths of the Iraq campaign

At the very top of the top 10 list, of course, is the constant refrain that no WMD were found:

"Several hundred chemical weapons were found, and Saddam had all his WMD scientists and technicians ready. Just end the sanctions and add money, and the weapons would be back in production within a year. At the time of the invasion, all intelligence agencies, world-wide, believed Saddam still had a functioning WMD program."

This should include Saddam’s nuclear weapons program, which Christopher Hitchens recalls, if no one else does: "Saddam Hussein had built an enormous secret nuclear reactor at Tuwaitha, and had acquired most of the elements of a nuclear weapon." 

Via Strategy Page and The Claremont Review of Books

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Senator, it’s nuts over here

Posted on January 27, 2007 | Comments Off on Senator, it’s nuts over here

Connecticut Democrat Sen. Chris Dodd is using Army reserve CPT Brian Freeman’s death as an argument for withdrawal from Iraq. Dodd says Freeman, killed last weekend in an assault some say was engineered by Iran, passionately complained to Dodd when the senator visited Iraq that Freeman was having to do State Department instead of Army work:

“’Senator, it’s nuts over here,’ Dodd quoted Freeman in the Senate on Friday. ‘Soldiers are being asked to do work we’re not trained to do.  I’m doing work that the State Department people are far more prepared to do in fostering democracy, but they’re not allowed to come off the bases because it’s too dangerous here.  It doesn’t make any sense.’”

This fits in with previous reporting that the State Department and other agencies are leaving the work in Iraq to the Pentagon. President Bush mentioned in his State of the Union speech that the rest of government needed to do more. Even Gen. Petraeus, the new coalition commander in Baghdad recently complained about it in his Senate confirmation hearings. Sometimes it looks like the whole American government has become unhinged and incompetent: place-holders and buck-passers with their own private political agendas. The Jihadis must be loving it.

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Panic in Lebanon

Posted on January 27, 2007 | Comments Off on Panic in Lebanon

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The "poisoned" green balloons of death, according to Hezbollah. A benign newspaper promotional gimmick which drifted on the wind into southern Lebanon, according to the Israelis. But the moonbats and their terrorist pals will never believe that. Quick, someone call Jimmy Carter! 

Via Little Green Footballs 

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Bullets instead of kisses

Posted on January 27, 2007 | Comments Off on Bullets instead of kisses

For more than a year, the Bush administration has been quietly playing kissy-face with the mad mullahs, doing a little overlooking of their high-explosive coming into Iraq to kill Americans and capturing-and-releasing (without harming) their agents. All to try and convince the mad mullahs that Americans are ever so nice, if the mullahs will just pick up and go home. No need to have a war, don’t you know. Now, supposedly, it’s going to be open season on Iranian soldiers in Iraq. It makes me want to scream. Do we have any American politicians who aren’t morons?

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I am the true cost of freedom

Posted on January 26, 2007 | Comments Off on I am the true cost of freedom

More dispatches from Walter Reed by J.R. Salzman in his recovery from losing his right arm and ring finger of his left hand in an IED explosion in Iraq last fall. His wife is doing the typing in this amazing and poignant kind of blogging:

"I realize there are a lot of other people out there who are worse off than me. I am not asking for sympathy here. All I am trying to do is let you know what it is like to experience this. I have constant phantom pain in my arm where it feels like my hand is still there, and someone is sawing on it with a knife."

My Confederate great grandfather lost the lower part of one leg to a cannon ball in the Wilderness battle, May 6, 1864, went home and spent much of the rest of his life wearing a wooden peg while plowing behind a mule. I always wondered what that was like. J.R. brings that and many other things into clear focus.

Via Black Five 

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