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Losing it

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Posted on March 11, 2007 in The War

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High anxiety

Posted on February 16, 2007 | Comments Off on 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.

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Posted in The War

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Unresponsive, so far

Posted on February 6, 2007 | Comments Off on Unresponsive, so far

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Invading, however, really isn’t necessary, according to American historian Arthur Herman. Air strikes and naval attacks from the Persian Gulf would be more than enough:

"Almost 90 percent of the mullahs’ oil assets are located either in or near the Gulf. So is the nuclear reactor that Russia is building for Iran at Bushehr. Virtually every Iranian well or production platform depends on access to the Gulf if Iran’s oil is to reach buyers. Hence, the same Straits by means of which Iran intends to lever itself into a position of global power present the West with its own point of leverage to reduce Iran’s power—and to keep it reduced for at least as long as the country’s political institutions remain unprepared to enter the modern world."

Worth a read. 

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Posted in Iraq, The War, Troops

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Has Bush shot himself in the foot?

Posted on January 29, 2007 | Comments Off on Has Bush shot himself in the foot?

One of Lyndon Johnson’s big mistakes in the Vietnam war was insisting on personally clearing every bombing mission and target beforehand. But even LBJ didn’t turn his troops over to the command of the South Vietnamese government. President Bush appears to have given the Iraqi government control of our troops in his new struggle for Baghdad, which may have doomed it from the start. The story, picked up by the likes of conservative blogger Hyscience, is in Salon, the Lefty digital newsmagazine that is not my favorite source of information. Maybe it’s bull. Sure hope so. But it fits right in with various tactical stupidities of the past four years, such as allowing the Shia thug Mookie Sadr to live, and playing catch-and-release with Iranian agents whose explosives were killing American troops. But, so far, the dumbest thing of all has been the continuation of two sanctuaries for the enemy’s recruitment and re-supply, in neighborhing Syria and Iran, almost exactly what happened in South Vietnam with North Vietnam and Cambodia. If somebody doesn’t wise up pretty soon we’re going to lose this thing.

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Posted in Iraq, The War, Troops

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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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Posted in The War, Troops

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Bush’s little dig

Posted on January 25, 2007 | Comments Off on Bush’s little dig

Dropping the "i" and the "c" at the end of the Democrat Party’s preferred pronunciation and spelling, as Democratic, is an old Republican Party move. It riles the Dems something fierce–who seem to think they have a special right to be considered small ‘d’ democratic–and Bush employed it in his State of the Union speech, whether on purpose or simply out of habit.

"The president’s pronunciation was all the more striking because it was apparently not what Bush was supposed to say. The prepared speech that the White House distributed beforehand retained that precious ‘-ic.’"

Precious? Isn’t that precious.

UPDATE  Welcome readers of CBS News blogger Melissa P. McNamara, who linked to this entry this morning, Jan. 31. While you’re here, look around. Although, if you’re expecting a liberal blog, which McNamara indicated this is, you’re going to be disappointed. Except on a few issues, such as gays and abortion, this really isn’t a liberal blog, at all. Rather conservative in most ways. 

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Which to believe?

Posted on January 12, 2007 | Comments Off on Which to believe?

One or the other? Or neither? ABC News finds cheering troops for a visiting President Bush, post-surge speech, at my old alma mater Fort Benning. While the NYTimes finds "a restrained response" at the same occasion. Only ABC is playing against type, which might be a clue. Or not. Read what you like, but be careful what you believe. Things are never what they seem.

Via Best of the Web Today

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