UN Calls Drop in Iraq Violence-Related Deaths ‘Remarkable’
Posted on October 22, 2007 - Filed Under News, UN, War On Terror | 1 Comment
This will drop out of the mainstream media’s consciousness faster than a liberal talk radio host with 14 Ketel One bloody marys under her belt.
From reliefweb:
BAGHDAD, 21 October 2007 (IRIN) – Iraqis are breathing a sigh of relief as violence in their war-torn country is ebbing and the number of violence-related victims has dropped sharply [...]
The Randi Rhodes ‘Mugging’: What Have We Learned?
Posted on October 17, 2007 - Filed Under News, Politics As Usual | 1 Comment
“What Have We Learned?”
This is a question my son likes to ask after seeing the universe reward stupidity in the usual way. For example, he said it after a particularly gruesome episode of “Scarred” featuring a skateboarder who slit his scrotum open on a metal spur while trying to grind down a railing.
Sadly, in the [...]
NBC’s Richard Engel Justifies Green Zone Reporting
Posted on December 5, 2006 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment
NewsBusters has the story. NBC correspondent Richard Engel, who last week told the Nightly News audience that Iraq had “collapsed,” complained to Howard Kurtz on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” that reporters were endangering themselves because of conservative critics:
Howard Kurtz: “Richard Engel, top administration officials, as you well know, have repeatedly criticized correspondents like you for painting [...]
The November 8 Army, To Conserve Fighting Strength
Posted on November 29, 2006 - Filed Under War On Terror | Comments Off
Earlier, I wrote of one of the themes that has become increasingly recurrent in military staff meetings, “9.) Priorities number one, two and three are the American Soldier, period.”
ABC News is reporting:
ABC News has learned that Pentagon officials are considering a major strategic shift in Iraq, to move U.S. forces out of the dangerous Sunni-dominated [...]
An Oak Leaf’s Note Pad
Posted on November 28, 2006 - Filed Under War On Terror | Comments Off
Starting early last week, I have been in a number of formal and informal staff meetings in a number of areas. Some of the “raw” personal (not operational) notes that I jotted down follow. They give you some insight as to where we would hope we are, where we hope have been and where we [...]
Read More..>>Military Political Parallax
Posted on November 20, 2006 - Filed Under War On Terror | 1 Comment
Cross Posted from Yet Another Conservative Right Wing Blog: Carl von Clausewitz, famous 17th century soldier, historian, and military theorist, had quite a bit to say on the intersection of politics and warfare. I highly recommend reading the English translation of his “Von Kriege” treatise called “On War”. Of particular note and applicability [...]
Read More..>>GOP Momentum- Go Vote
Posted on November 6, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU | Comments Off
Do not be discouraged, because all signs show the GOP gaining ground, reaching out to voters, and having a real chance to not only hold the House and Senate, but to steal some Democrat seats (at least in the Senate). Get out and vote, tell your friends to vote, tell your family to vote… We [...]
Read More..>>Strong Senate… Strong Judges
Posted on November 5, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, Activist Judges, News | Comments Off
Cross-posted from Right on the Right:
Voice-over by Dave from Total Kaos
For those involved in GOP-GOTV, it is very important to know the rumors on John Paul Stevens:
For the past several weeks, there has been a rumor circulating among high-level officials in Washington, D.C., that a member of the U.S. Supreme Court has received grave medical [...]
Saddam Hussein- Guilty
Posted on November 5, 2006 - Filed Under News, War On Terror | 1 Comment
Cross-posted from Right on the Right:
Today, the Iraqi people made a positive step in their Democracy, ruling that Saddam Hussein is guilty of the systematic massacre of 148 Kurds and Shi’ites in the Iraqi City of Dujail in 1982. This ruling is the first of many, as Saddam is being tried in several crimes. [...]
Reconstructing Vietnam
Posted on October 3, 2006 - Filed Under History, War On Terror | 2 Comments
Ultimately, that’s what the Foley scandal is a part of, stumbling into another Vietnam. The Left and the Democratic Party are so heavily invested in our defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan that they will have to withdraw our troops in order to maintain power. Emboldened, just as in Mogadishu in 1993, our enemies will follow [...]
Read More..>>Murtha: The All High and Mighty
Posted on October 3, 2006 - Filed Under News | 2 Comments
- Falls Weakly By His Own Hand.
Cross Posted from Liberty Just In Case
FBI Tape Reveals John Murtha’s Role in Abscam Scandal
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HANNITY: A short while later the agent again offers Murtha a bribe of $50,000. This time, Murtha says that he might consider taking the money at a later date after they do more business.
(Start Quote [...]
What? Another Dem Caught With His Hands In The Cookie Jar? Say It Isn’t So…
Posted on May 21, 2006 - Filed Under News | Comments Off
For over a year now we’ve been bombarded by the ultra liberals of the Democratic Party with their stories of a “Republican Corruption Machine”. And for the past year we’ve been trying to tell the common man that this is liberal spin. Well now we have a story for them, another Democrat has [...]
Read More..>>Most Americans Support NSA Efforts
Posted on May 12, 2006 - Filed Under Border Control/Homeland Security, News, War On Terror | Comments Off
Cross-Posted From Gribbit’s Word
The Washington Post is reporting on a poll which claims that 66% of Americans support the efforts of the National Security Agency.
A majority of Americans initially support a controversial National Security Agency program to collect information on telephone calls made in the United States in an effort to identify and investigate potential [...]
Pentagon Looks At Putting National Guard On The Border
Posted on May 12, 2006 - Filed Under Border Control/Homeland Security, News | Comments Off
Cross-Posted From Gribbit’s Word
The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to grant Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, the authority to assign National Guard troops to patrol the Southern Border. The vote was 252 – 171 in favor of authorization.
Paul McHale, the assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense, asked officials this week to come [...]
CIA Director Porter Goss Resigns
Posted on May 5, 2006 - Filed Under News, War On Terror | Comments Off
President George W. Bush has just held a press conference announcing that he has accepted the resignation of CIA Director Porter Goss. This is a shocking development for those of us who follow national politics.
Goss led the charge within the CIA to find and seal information leaks. This has led to the recent [...]
