Last night Fox news reported that American casualties are higher in Afghanistan than in Iraq for the second month running. Our media has gone dark on Iraq reporting with the exception of Maliki’s declarations about hastening American withdrawal which can be spun without admiting American success in Iraq. Thorough examination of the facts however yields [...]
From MSNBC.com:
Congress ramps up Iraq, Afghanistan spending
Defense authorization bill sent to Bush — without timetables
WASHINGTON – The Democratic-led Congress authorized more Iraq war spending on Friday, sending President Bush a defense bill requiring no change in strategy after failing again to impose a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawals.
It looks like it took a Democrat Congress [...]
From IBD:
War On Terror: Coalition forces captured the Taliban’s biggest stronghold on Tuesday in a major military victory. Funny, isn’t it, how the good guys winning doesn’t make banner front-page headlines?
Musa Qala was the only town in the strategically vital Helmand province under Taliban control. The enemy had seized it in February after the collapse [...]
Ace-of Spades has the low-down. Bottom line: Iran is the number one problem in the world right now, and they (along with AQ) have their bloody fingers in everything.
What’s our move, Mr. President?
The Taliban leader who has been responsible for the latest surge in violence in Afghanistan was killed. Story here:
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 13 — Mullah Dadullah was the face of the Taliban movement in Afghanistan as it used suicide bombings, videotaped beheadings and targeted assassinations to escalate its insurgent campaign over the past two years.
Dadullah periodically [...]
The CIA nabbed al Qaeda bigshot Abd Al-Hadi Al-Iraqi in 2006 and now he’s on his way to Gitmo. Most likely we’ve drained him of all useful intel. The significance of this capture?
First, thanks to the sleuthing of Allah at Hot Air, we know that al-Iraqi was listed along with bin Laden in the Sept. [...]
I’m disgusted. It seems like the world and our country are going nuts.
I saw this article from the Times Online (UK) about a leaked British intelligence report that indicates that al Qaeda is planning a massive attack that will be
on “a par with Hiroshima and Nagasaki†in an attempt to “shake the Roman throneâ€, [...]
I rarely read any article from the New York Slimes, but in the middle of the night when I couldn’t sleep, I found an article on Drudge that caught my eye. The article, New Generation of Qaeda Chiefs Is Seen on Rise, discusses how they have taken on a new form, with new leaders, [...]
The Washington Post calls this piece of detritus “reporting”:
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 4 — At least eight Afghan civilians were killed Sunday in eastern Afghanistan when U.S. Marines traveling in a convoy were hit by a car bomb and responded by firing in a way that some witnesses called reckless.
Are they kidding me?
Immediately afterward, the convoy [...]
This afternoon I received an e mail from a soldier deployed
to Afghanistan:
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“This morning, I met with community leaders in a typical Afghanistan village. After our business was conducted, I was surprised by their interest in our election. While their knowledge of the mechanics of our election was on par with Americans understanding elections in [...]
Via WorldNetDaily. Was there ever any doubt?
JERUSALEM – Everybody has an opinion about next Tuesday’s midterm congressional election in the U.S. – including senior terrorist leaders interviewed by WND who say they hope Americans sweep the Democrats into power because of the party’s position on withdrawing from Iraq, a move, as they see it, that [...]
Good article this morning from Ed Koch, former mayor of New York, courtesy of Real Clear Politics. Appeasement Never Works
It makes no difference in determining our current position whether we were right or wrong to go into Iraq in 2003; we are now there. To those who say, if we were wrong initially, [...]
Investor’s Business Daily has a comprehensive assessment of democrat policies from the last forty years. First, on Carter:
Jimmy Carter, elected during the Cold War with the Soviet Union, and (1) believing Americans had an inordinate fear of communism, (2) lifted U.S. citizens’ travel bans to Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia and (3) pardoned draft [...]
FoxNews is reporting that the U.S. military had an opportunity to kill over 100 Taliban leaders gathered in a funeral procession. But our rules of engagement would not allow us to attack a cemetary/funeral gathering. What?!! Are you kidding me?
Listen folks, we are NOT going to win a PC war!! [...]
There has been some talk from the experts that we are actually in World War III. The Middle East is brewing with fundamentalist Muslims — Iraq, Iran, Hamas, Hezbulloh, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan, Syria. Bombings in India. And not to be outdone, North Korea is stirring the pot. Terrorist groups in [...]