Category Archives: The War

Poster girl

Posted on October 25, 2006 | Comments Off on Poster girl

Aussie Beccy Cole is one country singer whose style is to embrace the troops in The Long War.

Via Blackfive, of course. 

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Uranium melt

Posted on October 25, 2006 | Comments Off on Uranium melt

Latest from the translated Iraqi documents indicates Saddam (also called "the Leader God") was still interested in nukes in 2001.

"…Saddam was asked by the Organization Staff to give his permission for re-using the infamous ‘ Degussa Vacuum furnaces’ that were used in the previous and prohibited Iraq nuclear program. These furnaces can be used to melt uranium and other nuclear related activities."

The site seems to be having server problems, so here’s Google’s cache of this translation. 

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Bush unfiltered

Posted on October 25, 2006 | Comments Off on Bush unfiltered

You may not like what he says, but you have a better chance of hearing it in his words if you read the transcript.

"I’m sure people who watch your TV screens think the entire country is embroiled in sectarian conflict and that there’s constant killing everywhere in Iraq. Well, if you listened to General Casey yesterday, 90 percent of the action takes place in five of the 18 provinces. And around Baghdad, it’s limited to a 30-mile area. And the reason I bring that up is that while it seems to our American citizens that nothing normal is taking place — and I can understand why, it’s a brutal environment there, particularly that which is on our TV screens — that there is farmers farming, there are small businesses growing, there’s a currency that’s relatively stable, there’s an entrepreneurial class, there’s commerce."

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Tet on the Tigris

Posted on October 20, 2006 | Comments Off on Tet on the Tigris

Bush’s political and media opponents are having a grand time with his remark that there may be some similarities between Tet, 1968, in Vietnam and Baghdad, in 2006–at least in the way that the enemy is trying to influence American politics. Poor man, he has no way to win with some people. If he says nothing, he’s uncommunicative. If he says something, he’s either blundered or engaging in spin. British military historian John Kagan says he blundered. At least Kagan’s numbers are instructive.

"By January 1968, total American casualties in Vietnam — killed, wounded and missing — had reached 80,000 and climbing…In a bad week in Vietnam, the US could suffer 2,000 casualties. Since 2003, American forces in Iraq have never suffered as many as 500 casualties a month…In any year of the Vietnam war, the communist party of North Vietnam sent 200,000 young men to the battlefields in the south, most of whom did not return. Vietnam was one of the largest and costliest wars in history. The insurgency in Iraq resembles one of the colonial disturbances of imperial history."

Via Instapundit 

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Never forget

Posted on October 20, 2006 | Comments Off on Never forget

The recent discovery in New York City of human remains–some as large as arm or leg bones–found at the site of the 11 September attacks is a ghostly reminder of why we are where we are today, with a looming mid-term election which could change the course of the war begun on 12 September.

The Democrats are pummelling the Republicans for running political ads referring to the 5-year-old attacks, contending the R’s are sleazy to make political points off tragedy, but of course they would do it too, given the chance to govern again. How could any party in good conscience not mention the threat and seek to meet it? The human remains at ground zero remind us what’s important.

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Soldiers of the right

Posted on October 19, 2006 | Comments Off on Soldiers of the right

"He knew that this uniform represented something good and that he was part of a legacy of men and women who have protected what is good and right in this world.”

A eulogy for Staff Sgt. Jose A. Lanzarin, of Del Rio, and Pfc. Shane R. Austin, of Edgerton, Kansas, two of the dead in this deadly month of the war, as the bad guys try once again to influence an election.

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Canada, oh Canada

Posted on October 19, 2006 | Comments Off on Canada, oh Canada

Op-For has put up some Canadian combat videos recently, demonstrating the Canuck’s prowess in the Afghanistan campaign. Now comes Israellycool quoting from a speech by Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper on the Maple Leaf’s new Middle East policy.

“Those who attacked Israel and those who sponsor such attacks … seek what they and those like them have always sought — the destruction of Israel and the destruction of the Jewish people,” he said. “Those who seek to destroy the Jews … will for the same reason ultimately seek to destroy us all and that my friends is why Canada’s new government has reacted with speed and spoken with clarity on recent events in the Middle East.”

That about sums it up.

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