Category Archives: The War

The view from Iraq

Posted on January 11, 2007 | Comments Off on The view from Iraq

My late mother avoided television news most of her life, but in her last years found herself watching the local version now and again. Their devotion to the police blotter (because it’s cheap and easily available) left her convinced there was a major crime wave in her town. There wasn’t. Likewise, according to Iraqi embed and freelance journalist Bill Roggio, the troops contend that Americans and others get a distorted view:

"American troops watch the news and follow the debate in real time. They will tell you the war they see on television isn’t the war they are fighting. To the troops, the war as portrayed on television is oversimplified and digested into sound bites. The soldiers are portrayed as victims and the violence is grossly exaggerated."

Worth a read. 

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Carter advisers bail

Posted on January 11, 2007 | Comments Off on Carter advisers bail

Carter’s slimey, one-sided, anti-Israel book causes him more trouble, this time from within his own organization:

"ATLANTA — Fourteen members of an advisory board at the Carter Center resigned today, concluding they could ‘no longer in good conscience continue to serve’ following publication of former President Jimmy Carter’s controversial book, ‘Palestine Peace Not Apartheid.’"

Yeah, I’ll go for "controversial." Full of lies also works. But I’m sure his Arab Muslim financiers like it.

Via Instapundit 

UPDATE More on Carter’s Arab Muslim backers, of his peanut farm and Carter Center, here and here. The fellow some admirers hail for "restoring morality" to the presidency, is in for more than $20 million and counting, including some from the Bin Laden family. Yeah, that Bin Laden family. All perfectly legal, apparently. But it rather undermines any claim to impartial judgement.

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Bush Derangement Syndrome

Posted on January 11, 2007 | Comments Off on Bush Derangement Syndrome

The syndrome is going to be spreading like wildfire in the next few days and weeks, post-surge speech, as the loonies demonstrate their need for some serious meds. Here’s an example of the syndrome in breathless action: Paul Craig Roberts, a former assistant secretary of the treasury under–of all people–President Reagan, joining the unwashed in comparing Bush to Hitler:

"Like Hitler, he protects himself from reality with delusion. In his last hours, Hitler was ordering non-existent German armies to drive the Russians from Berlin."

Yes, there is delusion at work here. A form of mass psychosis. Especially among the folks who once criticized Bush for not sending enough troops and, now, criticize him for… sending more troops! We can only hope that mental health professionals are standing by, especially on the east and west coasts.

Via Craig Scanlon, a commenter at No Left Turns 

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President Bush unfiltered

Posted on January 10, 2007 | Comments Off on President Bush unfiltered

I didn’t watch his speech. I rarely watch them anymore as his "performance" is largely irrelevant to me. I’m more interested in what he says, and for that I always await the transcript, which is here. It’s at CBS news, which I normally wouldn’t trust to send out for donuts, but it’s the only one I can find at the moment. When the White House has one up, I’ll switch the link to it. (I found the White House one and switched it.) The surge sounds workable, even logical, focused as it will be on Baghdad and al Anbar. And although he offered no specifics on Iran and Syria he at least said we’d be working (at last) to stop their interference. He only mentioned two carrier strike groups, although a third one is plainly to soon be on the way, but he did mention the security of the region and stopping Iran from getting nukes. All of which may be as pointed inuendo as he feels he is able to offer right now. I hope he has much more in mind.

UPDATE  Two days of furious battles in Baghdad show the fight has begun, re Iraq the Model here. 

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Bush Library furor

Posted on January 10, 2007 | Comments Off on Bush Library furor

A really amusing battle is going on at Southern Methodist University in Dallas where the Bush haters in the faculty are raging about losing their alleged academic independence from politics (oh, come on) if SMU hosts W’s presidential library–as if all presidential libraries are not partisan, at least until the great man dies. Poor Laura, it’s only because SMU is her alma mater that Bush wanted the library there to begin with. It would be much better served at Baylor University in Waco where Bush Derangement Syndrome is not so pronounced. But the library’s alleged partisanship that the SMU faculty purports to be concerned about really is baloney. The LBJ Library in Austin is hardly a hotbed of conservative analysis and Stanford University hasn’t been noticeably jeopardized by the presence of the conservative Hoover Institution. In any case, one would not expect, as one commenter here asserts, to see a bi-partisan exhibit at Clinton’s library dedicated to Monica Lewinsky, not as long as Old Bill is alive.

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View from Somalia

Posted on January 9, 2007 | Comments Off on View from Somalia

A timely interview on events in Somalia at altmuslim.com, Austin’s moderate Muslim digital magzine:

"Somalis, by nature, are very suspicious of foreign powers, especially those with a theological bent on ruling the country. Even though groups in Saudi Arabia were successful in funding and arming most of this [Islamic Courts] movement, they really did not succeed in convincing the Somali people to join their movement. As soon as they were defeated, music blasted in every radio station in Mogadishu and women again wore their traditional Somali dresses."

Worth a read. Unless you prefer your details from the Sunni News Service, otherwise called the BBC.

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Carter on the take

Posted on January 9, 2007 | Comments Off on Carter on the take

The sanctimonious old fraud would have you believe that he likes to write books in which he lectures Israel because the democratic Jewish state is committing apartheid against the terrorist Palestinians by walling off their efforts to suicide-bomb buses and cafes. Or is it really because Carter’s dictatorial Arab cronies are paying him to do it?

"According to the Carter Center Web site’s 2004-05 annual report—the most recent available—the center has received ‘in excess of $1 million’ from characters like Prince Al-Walid bin Talal. Bin Talal, you might recall, is the Saudi prince who insultingly offered $20 million to New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in the smoldering ruins of the World Trade Center. The cash was held out not because the prince cared about terrorism but to rub in that the attack was really a byproduct of the Palestine conflict."

There’s more. Don’t miss the rest at Investors.com.

Via Miriam’s Ideas

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